The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people.

No one ever won a game by resigning.

The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.

Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.

To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game

A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!

The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing

The mistakes are there, waiting to be made

A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.

Who prays at help in the Illusion of his Life does not understand that his only aid is death

If you think too long you think wrong.

A selfie is a sort of interesting way to reclaim the gaze, right? You're looking at yourself and taking a photo while looking at everyone.

I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

Rick Perry has made so many gaffes lately, it is hard to tell if he's running against President Obama or Joe Biden.

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.

Relationship movies are often made for a female audience.