If you are interested in improving, think of a draw offer as an offer to remain ignorant of what you would have learned in the remainder of the game. - Dan Heisman
A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of course, to the fear-and-laziness draws. - Bent Larsen
I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically. - Bobby Fischer
The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death - the inevitable victory of certainty and mechanization will leave its stamp on the fate of chess. - Emanuel Lasker
I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw ... - Nigel Short
A draw can be obtained not only by repeating moves, but also by one weak move. - Savielly Tartakower
Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative in maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels gratified, because it shows that the resources of the game are far from being exhausted. - Savielly Tartakower
Drawn games are sometimes more scintillating than any conclusive contest. - Savielly Tartakower
He played with enormous energy and great fighting spirit. Offering him a draw was a waste of time. He would decline it politely, but firmly. "No, thank you," he would say and the fight would go on and on and on. - Lubomir Kavalek on Bent Larsen