Chess is not only knowledge and logic
There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo. . . they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.
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.
Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.
If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.
Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.
I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write.
My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play.
These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.
Chess is like war on a board
To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.
You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess, of chess culture.
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.
As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine.
Chess is one long regret.
Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.
Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.
I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.