Could we look into the head of a chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion.#Alfred Binet A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.#Wilhelm Steinitz Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.#Emanuel Lasker The older I grow, the more I value pawns.#Paul Keres Chess can learn a lot from poker. First, chess media and sponsors should emphasize its glamorous aspects: worldwide traveling, parties and escape from real world responsibilities.#Jennifer Shahade Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.#Bobby Fischer Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many opponents, and theory, based on a small number of 'reliable' games, must be rather unreliable.#Bent Larsen I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative chessmaster.#Emanuel Lasker Chess is 99 percent tactics.#Richard Teichmann Fischer wanted to give the Russians a taste of their own medicine.#Larry Evans After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the point of view of a methodical approach it was best to settle on this definition - A combination is a forced variation with a sacrifice.#Alexander Kotov The kings are an apt metaphor for human beings: utterly constrained by the rules of the game, defenseless against bombardment from all sides, able only to temporarily dodge disaster by moving one step in any direction.#Jennifer duBois In a gambit you give up a pawn for the sake of getting a lost game.#Samuel Standidge Boden Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess Championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.#Richard Dawkins A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position.#Bent Larsen You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether its really a good idea and whether there are other better ideas.#Stanley Kubrick Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.#Albert Einstein For surely of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.#Assiac (Heinrich Fraenkel) Fischer, who may or may not be mad as a hatter, has every right to be horrified.#Jeremy Silman Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.#Alexander Kotov The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions; for life is a kind of chess.#Benjamin Franklin Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is probably where you need the most practice.#Pal Benko First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game.#Siegbert Tarrasch I’d rather have a pawn than a finger.#Reuben Fine