The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary.
Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam..
My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration.
That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.
Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind.
Tactics flow from a superior position.
I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth game, I….
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and the….
I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of chess and other events can….
Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game.
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate..
To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game.
It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men.
What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game.
I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizin….
A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebaske….
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent.
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind..
I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically..
No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game..
Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it.