A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.

There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'.

But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the most marvellous wonders of our 20th century!

Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.

There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than lively piece play, but in our day the latter is more often preferred.

The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move