• Chess is a game developed by the intelligence ... to play chess. "
  • Miguel de Unamuno

• "Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue. "
  • Richard Reti Czechoslovakian chess player.

• "Life is too short for chess."
  • Lord Byron

• "Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for him. But that is the fault of life, not chess. "
  • Irving Chernev, Russian-American chess player.

• "There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine."
  • Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player.
• "Chess is imagination."
  • Ukrainian chess player David Bronstein
• "The best chess coach is yourself."
  • Tigran Petrosian, Armenian chess player.
• "The pawn is the soul of chess."
  • François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player and musician.

• "Play the opening like a book, the middlegame like a magician and the endgame like a machine."
  • Rudolf Spielmann, Austrian chess player

• "In few games I have learned as much as most of my losses.
  • Jose Raul Capablanca

• "A bad plan is better than no plan."
  • Frank Marshall, American chess player.

• "To compete in chess is necessary, above all, knowing human nature and understand the psychology of the opponent."
  • Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player.

• "No grandmaster is normal, the only thing that differs is the type of madness."
  • Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess player.

• "Is the poet Morphy, Steinitz fighter, philosopher Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine wonderful mechanism seeker of truth."
  • Kotov

• "You must be the forced movement and then delivered to meditation and not vice versa."
  • Blumenfeld

• "The profuse phallic symbolism of chess Provides Some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation."
  • Translation: "The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of homosexual desire, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation."
  • Reuben Fine, The Psychology of the Chess Player (The psychology of chess player), 1956

• "You sit on a board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to take a piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must stay there calmly and think if it really is a good idea or if you have better ideas. "
  • Stanley Kubrick
• "Help your pieces to help you."

Source: Wikipedia.

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