Portal:Chess/Quotes/12
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- In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody. — Estonian Grandmaster Paul Keres, on the middlegame calculation prowess of American Grandmaster and world champion Bobby Fischer (pictured)
- Chess is in its essence a game, in its form an art, and in its execution a science. — German chess theoretician, historian, and master Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, on the multiple natures of chess
- Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where kings don't expect them to be. — English author Terry Pratchett, in his 1992 novel Small Gods
- Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make people happy. — German chess theoretician and master Siegbert Tarrasch, on the capacity of chess to inspire and delight
- Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise them. It is because combinations are possible that chess is more than a lifeless mathematical exercise. They are the poetry of the game; they are to chess what melody is to music. They represent the triumph of mind over matter. — American Grandmaster and psychology author Reuben Fine
- Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted. — Russian President Vladimir Putin
For more chess quotations, see the chess page at the English Wikiquote.
