20th-century Chess Player Quotes

My first goal is to create an attractive, interactive website that forms a community of chess lovers. I want to keep it light and keep people coming back ⎯ heavy on photos, humor, and simple chess tactics and strategies. I want to promote our top players to increase their visibility and their chances to make a living at chess.

Jennifer Shahade

My relations with Korchnoi depend on whether he has slept well. If he had bad dreams, he speaks a lot of rubbish.

The preparation for active rook play entails what is called the opening of lines, which largely depends on pawn play, especially on the proper use of levers.

If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.

They have nothing on me, those guys. They can't even touch me. Some people rate them better than me. That really bugs me. They think that no Americans play chess. When I meet those Russian patzers I'll put them in their place.

Whenever we see an unprotected piece we must keep our eyes peeled because this is one of the most important ingredients of a combination.

Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.

I have a weakness for any piece in excess of my opponent's numbers - from pawn to queen.

Tigran Petrosian