Quotes by Chess The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is. David Bronstein essence chess thinking It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence? David Bronstein tuning purpose chess There just isn't enough televised Chess David Letterman humour enough chess What we need are lots of girls who aren't as good as us, who'll treat us with the proper respect and reverance. David Norwood girl chess needs I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame. Dawid Janowski should games chess When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at. Dominic Lawson conscience winning chess Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote. Donald E. Westlake three chess writing Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now Drake play chess cards Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life E. M. Forster house chess character Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere. Edmar Mednis learning skills chess Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in. Edmar Mednis play chess success Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited. Edmar Mednis understanding player chess Even when the time control has been reached, there is one situation where you want to act as if it has not: when your position is absolutely lost. Edmar Mednis want chess time The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess. Edgar Allan Poe reflection games chess There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind. Edgar Allan Poe analogies player chess The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance. Efim Bogoljubov chess book people It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material. Efim Geller sacrifice player chess It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often failed to find a win even in a won position Efim Geller vulnerable winning chess Without error there can be no brilliancy Emanuel Lasker errors chess beauty In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess, if anybody claims he is better than I, I can checkmate him. Emanuel Lasker problem chess might «4567891011121314»