We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess. We must condemn once and for all the formula “chess for the sake of chess”, like the formula “art for art’s sake”. We must organize shock brigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan for chess.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko
Good players actually use their long-term memory much more than inexperienced players, who use their short-term memory. Good players try to recall patterns.
Magnus Carlsen 2016 2016
I understood that through chess I could express myself and chess became my natural language.
Boris Spassky 1995
The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
Savielly Tartakower
Every chessmaster was once a beginner.
Irving Chernev
