'If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.'

Mikhail Tal

'Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don’t have this when you play a computer. I can’t confuse it.'

Judit Polgar

'Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.'

Magnus Carlsen

'Chess is a fairy tale of 1,001 blunders.'

Savielly Tartakower

'There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine.'

Mikhail Tal

'A good player is always lucky.'

José Raúl Capablanca

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

David Bronstein

'I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.'

Magnus Carlsen

'Well, I think, in large part, when I first began playing chess at seven years old, I was quite bad at it. I lost a lot of games when I first started.'

Hikaru Nakamura

'A win is a win, which is about that particular moment.'

Viswanathan Anand

'Win with grace, lose with dignity!'

Susan Polgar

'A sound plan makes us all heroes, the absence of a plan, idiots.'

Alexander Kotov