'There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.'

Maurice Ashley

'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

'When you see a good move, look for a better one.'

Emanuel Lasker

'How you lose matters. Don't be afraid of losing - it paralyzes you.'

Judit Polgar

'Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.'

Garry Kasparov

'Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all.'

Mikhail Chigorin

'A good player is always lucky.'

José Raúl Capablanca

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

David Bronstein

'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

'Win with grace, lose with dignity!'

Susan Polgar

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

Alexander Kotov