Great Chess Player Quotes

#1. If only I were articulate to paint in the frail medium of words what I see and know and possess incorporated in my consciousness of the mighty driftage of the races in the times before our present written history began!

Jack London

#2. I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

Edgar Allan Poe

#3. I think it is over-rated. Whenever I go to an Italian restaurant, I never get the tiramisu.

Rob Reiner

#4. Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

Jonathan Swift

#5. To look around at what you have accomplished in a day gives a man a good feeling. Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completeness satisfies a man.

Richard Proenneke

#6. Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.

Mignon McLaughlin

#7. We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

Nick Nolte

#8. Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks. It's just a matter of how you view them.

Anonymous

#9. In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master.

Vasily Smyslov

#10. By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.

Anatoly Karpov

#11. The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.

Emanuel Lasker

#12. The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.

Anatoly Karpov

#13. A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.

Garry Kasparov

#14. A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player

Bobby Fischer

#15. It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately.

Mark Dvoretsky

#16. Religion can reform a person's life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#17. I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#18. None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#19. A great chess player always has a very good memory.

Leonid Shamkovich