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1. Chess is a mental torture - Garry Kasparov

2. Chess is a beautiful mistress - Bent Larsen

3. Chess demands total concentration - Bobby Fischer

4. Chess is everything: art, science and sport - Anatoly Karpov

5. Every chess master was once a beginner - Chernev

6. Why must I lose to this idiot? - Aron Nimzovich

7. Help your pieces so they can help you - Paul Morphy

8. Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue - Reti

9. When in doubt... play Chess! - Tevis

10. One bad move nullifies forty good ones - Horowitz

11. Life is like a game of Chess, changing with each move - Chinese proverb

12. You cannot play at chess if you are kind-hearted - French Proverb

13. Chess is really ninety nine percent calculation - Soltis

14. Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people - Nigel Short

15. If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off - Nigel Short

16. Chess is the gymnasium of the mine - Blaise Pascal

17. Only sissies Castle - Rob Sillars

18. Castle early and often - Rob Sillars

19. Chess is ninety nine percent tactics - Teichmann

20. In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth - Edmar Mednis

21. Chess is above all, a fight! - Emanuel Lasker

22. Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf - Cecil Purdy

23. Chess opens and enriches your mind - Saudin Robovic

24. Chess is a cold bath for the mind - Sir John Simon

25. Chess is eminently and emphatically the philosopher's game - Paul Morphy

26. Chess is imagination - David Bronstein

27. A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it - Wilhelm Steinitz

28. Chess is life - Bobby Fischer

29. Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine - Mikhail Tal

30. A bad plan is better than none at all - Frank Marshall

31. There are two types of sacrifices; correct ones and mine - Mikhail Tal

32. A good player is always lucky - Jose Raul Capablanca

33. Chess is not like life... it has rules! - Mark Pasternak

34. All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves - Bobby Fischer

35. Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard - Reuben Fine

36. He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess - Siegbert Tarrasch

37. Chess is the art of analysis - Mikhail Botvinnik

38. A player surprised is half beaten - Proverb

39. Good positions don't win games, good moves do - Gerald Abrahams

40. Chess is as much a mystery as women - Purdy

41. Without error there can be no brilliancy - Emanuel Lasker

42. Many have become Chess Masters, no one has become the Master of Chess - Siegbert Tarrasch

43. Opening teach you openings. Endgame teach you chess! - Stephan Gerzadowicz

44. Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black Pieces - Akiba Rubinstein

45. Excellence at Chess is one mark of a scheming mind - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

46. No price is too great for the scalp of the enemy King - Koblentz

47. Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders - Savielly Tartakower

48. When you see a good move, look for a better one - Emanuel Lasker

49. Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty - Doninic Lawson

50. The Pin is mightier than the sword - Fred Reinfeld

51. Every Pawn is a potential Queen - James Mason

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