Quotes on Chess

Page 6 of Chess Quotes

"Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately"

Mikhail Botvinnik

"In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game"

Samuel Standige Boden

"No price is too great for the scalp of the enemy King"

Koblentz

"Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it"

Anand Viswanathan

"In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated"

Emanuel Lasker

"Chess is really ninety nine percent calculation"

Soltis

"The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature"

Stanley Ellin

"Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf"

Cecil Purdy

"All Chess players should have a hobby"

Savielly Tartakower