Greatest Chess Quotes

#1. Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

Alexander Kotov

#2. Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess

Frank Brady

#3. I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.

Lou Gerstner

#4. I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest chess player that could take random pieces of information and string them together into a scenario that was accurate. I never thought of him as a psychic at all. We need people like that.

Lance Henriksen

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

Mikhail Tal

#6. Regardless of Bobby's recent hate-filled rantings, which I abhor, he is nonetheless one of the greatest chessplayers of all time.

Frank Brady

#7. A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.

Emanuel Lasker

#8. Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all

Bobby Fischer

#9. Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what
Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board

Mikhail Botvinnik

#10. Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess is supposed to be

Vladimir Nabokov

#11. 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.

Craig Claiborne

#12. There's never before been a Chess player with such a thorough knowledge of the intricacies of the game and such an absolutely indomitable will to win. I think Bobby is the greatest player that ever lived

Lisa Lane

#13. By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion

Garry Kasparov

#14. Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.

Bobby Fischer

#15. Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

Siegbert Tarrasch

#16. With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time

Burt Hochberg