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Don't worry about your rating, work on your playing strength and your rating will follow.

Drawn games are sometimes more scintillating than any conclusive contest.

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

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.

Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.

Every move creates a weakness.

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with plans for the middle game.

Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!

Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived

Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.

Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.

Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!

Fischer wanted to give the Russians a taste of their own medicine

Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to stop him

Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.

Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury

Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone

Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd go down to the Four Continents bookstore and he'd buy any Russian chess material he could get his hands on. He'd learned enough Russian to get the gist of prose and he just absorbed the chess part.

Fischer, who may or may not be mad as a hatter, has every right to be horrified

Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.

Football is like chess, only without the dice.

For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.

For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man.

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.

For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

Golf is the loneliest of games, not excluding postal chess.

Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.

Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.

Haste, the great enemy.

Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?

Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp.

Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?

He who analyses blitz is stupid.

Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess.

Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago

However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.