I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.
One does not succeed by sticking to convention.
Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.
We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!
Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere.
Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
In so-called communist Romania, chess was held in high esteem, even if our champions were weaker than the Soviets. This game, this "sport of the mind," was at the time a better way to establish your reputation than literature.
Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression.
Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyversShe staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.
Chess is a matter of daily training.
I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.
Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(. . . )
When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at.
For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
Perfectly correct chess exists only in theory.
I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.
In chess there is a world of intellectual values.