Playing chess has many aspects that can be useful in everyday situations like planning, concentration and combinations. You learn to win but also to lose and to be creative.
Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.
Politics in Iran is not played like American football. It's played like chess. There are multiple moves. You're jumping ahead. And a lot of it is very subtle, and it catches you by surprise later on. So I don't want to go overboard on this.
Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.
The only good Rook is a working Rook!
Just reading about the various opinions concerning the conduct of the recent championship matches convinces me that the only thing to which two chessplayers could agree is that a third one is over-rated.
Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.
All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out from the rest of the game and stirs one's admiration.
Let's play. I'm willing to play anywhere.
Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.
No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.
I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.
It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.
Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.
Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess.
Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.
A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror
Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.
I add status to any tournament I attend.
Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.
