A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe that you have an advantage, and the third … when you know you're going to lose !
-Savielly Tartakover
When you don't know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponent's mind. You may be sure that idea will be wrong.
-Siegbert Tarrasch
The pin is mightier than the sword.
-Fred Reinfeld
My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration.
- Bobby Fischer
Sit your opponent with the sun in his eyes.
- Ruy Lopez (1561)
Every move creates a weakness.
- Siegbert Tarrasch
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing
What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.
Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine.
- Spielmann
It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men.
- Tartakover