Chess Quotes
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It's like a chess match. It's all about execution and staying with your plays. (Quote by - Walter Jones)
Daring ideas are like Chess men moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do. (Quote by - Gerald Abrahams)
A passed Pawn increases in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. (Quote by - Capablanca)
The battle for the ultimate truth will never be won. And that's why Chess is so fascinating. (Quote by - Hans Kmoch)
Chess is as much a mystery as women. (Quote by - Purdy)
I want them to develop a love for chess. I'm soft like that. (Quote by - Jim DellaSelva)
If a ruler does not understand Chess, how can he rule over a kingdom?. (Quote by - King Khusros II)
Chess is a fairy tale of blunders. (Quote by - Savielly Tartakower)
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess. Others give only 2 percent. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
Roy had a lot of resistance, .. playing chess all around. He was beat by a better fighter. Period. I passed my test. I did my homework. (Quote by - Antonio Tarver)
No price is too great for the scalp of the enemy King. (Quote by - Koblentz)
I think it will be a heck of a chess match. (Quote by - Lesley Visser)
Between UMBC and UT-Dallas, they're the two powerhouses of collegiate chess in the country. Third place is fairly distant. (Quote by - Jerry Nash)
Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make people happy. (Quote by - Siegbert Tarrasch)
If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off. (Quote by - Nigel Short)
The boy then a year old boy named Anatoly Karpov doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession . (Quote by - Mikhail Botvinnik)
Chess is not only knowledge and logic. (Quote by - Alexander Alekhine)
Human affairs are like a Chess game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. (Quote by - Hung Tzu Ch'eng)
I failed to make the chess team because of my height. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
You get conflicts all of the time. But you have to know how to play the chess game. We come with results, and we come with solutions. (Quote by - Wyclef Jean)
The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move. (Quote by - David Bronstein)
Blessed be the memory of him who gave the world this immortal game. (Quote by - A. G. Gardiner)
Chess is cool because you really have to get the right moves in your head before you play the game. (Quote by - Jack Walsh)
The mistakes are all waiting to be made. (Quote by - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower)
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
After black's reply to .e with ..e, leaves him always trying to get into the game. (Quote by - Howard Staunton)
A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation. (Quote by - Norbert Wiener)
I like the moment when I break a man's ego. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion. (Quote by - Alfred Binet)
It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock. (Quote by - Viktor Korchnoi)
Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists. (Quote by - Mikhail Botvinnik)
For Democratic senators this is a vote of conscience, not a chess game, .. That's why Democratic senators are not voting in lockstep, unlike some partisans who cheerlead for anyone the White House picks, even before hearings are held. (Quote by - David Carle)
I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball. (Quote by - Garry Kasparov)
They sought to get involved in Taiwan's domestic affairs .. to direct the chess game. (Quote by - Chen Shui-bian)
Pawns: they are the soul of this game, they alone form the attack and defense. (Quote by - Philidor)
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense. (Quote by - Boris Spassky)
Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack. (Quote by - Wilhelm Steinitz)
Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player. (Quote by - Siegbert Tarrasch)
They'll be competing with companies like Computer Associates. This is the opening move in a larger chess game. (Quote by - Phil Schacter)
Chess demands total concentration. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
It's like someone's attacking you as if they're playing checkers, but you're a master of chess. And so you use strategy, you use your mind. You don't rely on how strong you are. (Quote by - Tom Gohring)
We don't really know how the game was invented, though there are suspicions. As soon as we discover the culprits, we'll let you know. (Quote by - Bruce Pandolfini)
In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth. (Quote by - Edmar Mednis)
Life is like a game of Chess, changing with each move. (Quote by - Chinese proverb)
Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf. (Quote by - Cecil Purdy)
I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed. (Quote by - Emanuel Lasker)
Bridge is much more sociable than chess. To play bridge you have to be two, you and your partner, at least. And you're playing with lots of other people. (Quote by - Jennifer Pratt)
Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!. (Quote by - Siegbert Tarrasch)
It is really a game of chess. (Quote by - Chuck Bresnahan)
You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
Let the perfectionist play postal. (Quote by - Yasser Seirawan)
He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess. (Quote by - Siegbert Tarrasch)
It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men. (Quote by - Savielly Tartakover)
It's been a tremendous rivalry. The matches have been tactical matches which is more like a chess match. If they end up in the finals of the Big 12, I think it's going to be a great match. If they end up in the finals of the national tournament I think it's going to be another great match. (Quote by - Bobby Douglas)
Other chess clubs around the country do this. When you get bigger, you have tournaments. (Quote by - Michael Borys)
Good positions don't win games, good moves do. (Quote by - Gerald Abrahams)
Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess is supposed to be. (Quote by - Vladimir Nabokov)
It's just a chess match when we play them, and we take a lot of their stuff away that other people can't, and they're actually able to guard us and keep us out of the paint. (Quote by - Chris Lowery)
When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work. (Quote by - Mikhail Botvinnik)
Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self image and self esteem. (Quote by - Saudin Robovic)
By the time the disease was through with him, he no longer knew how to move a chess piece or to put together a simple child's model boat,. (Quote by - David Hyde Pierce)
Wrestling is a physical chess match. What he does is put extra effort before and after practice to sharpen his skills. He doesn't need to be motivated. He motivates himself. (Quote by - Nick Petrov)
Playing against him is like a chess match. (Quote by - Troy Polamalu)
Chess is mental torture. (Quote by - Garry Kasparov)
Any material change in a position must come about by mate, a capture, or a Pawn promotion. (Quote by - Purdy)
Pawns are born free, yet they are everywhere in chains. (Quote by - Rick Kennedy)
The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem. (Quote by - Marcel Duchamp)
When you see a good move, look for a better one. (Quote by - Emanuel Lasker)
The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made. (Quote by - Savielly Tartakover)
He was a well-liked student with lots of friends. He was a good math student and a good chess player. (Quote by - Paul Green)
Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
She's learning where the chess pieces go on the board. Ian is enjoying his title as a national champion and wants to help his little sister learn the game, too. (Quote by - Ian Gilchrist)
It was like a chess game. We defended well and 0-0 is a good result but the tie isn't over, it's just half-time,. (Quote by - Steven Gerrard)
I wouldn't be surprised if he was a chess master. He likes competition and has fun competing. (Quote by - Kevin Black)
Chess is in its essence a game, in its form an art, and in its execution a science. (Quote by - Baron Tassilo)
The game was low-scoring, like a chess match. It came down to the end of the game and I think we were probably in better shape than Villanova. We ran so much and we were used to playing fast and furious. (Quote by - Barbara Jacobs)
You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where and the path leading out is only wide enough for one. (Quote by - Mikhail Tal)
Examine moves that smite! A good eye for smites is far more important than a knowledge of strategical principles. (Quote by - Purdy)
Openings teach you openings. Endgames teach you chess!. (Quote by - Stephan Gerzadowicz)
It's such a chess match. You can be leading the race one second, and you can be fifth the next second. I think it's just a matter of timing and getting yourself in the right place at the right time. (Quote by - Tony Stewart)
Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic. (Quote by - Mikhail Botvinnik)
It is a game of chess with this city. We'll have to see how it is going to play out. The city goes back and forth trying to figure out what programs to cut and what they have funding for. What I would love to see is for the city to step up and run the rink 10 months out of the year so kids can play in the summer and we can have camps here in Glenwood. (Quote by - Larry MacDonald)
Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands! (Quote by - Renaud and Kahn)
I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
The mistakes are there, waiting to be made. (Quote by - Savielly Tartakower)
It definitely was a defensive battle -- almost like a chess match. And at the end, for those last few minutes, it was just pure grit. (Quote by - Pam Adams)
We think the game is a chess game you're playing all the time,. (Quote by - Joe Tiller)
Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
You are for me the Queen on d and I am the Pawn on d!!. (Quote by - GM Eduard Gufeld)
Chess is the gymnasium of the mind. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Chess is everything: art, science and sport. (Quote by - Anatoly Karpov)
My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian. (Quote by - Reshevsky)
Chess is a cold bath for the mind. (Quote by - Sir John Simon)
A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk. (Quote by - Alexander Alekhine)
It's going to be a big chess match. Offensively, they don't do a lot of different things than other college teams, but they do a lot of things better than a lot of college teams do. (Quote by - Donte Whitner)
It becomes a bit of a chess match, because I have to put my A swimmer hopefully in a spot where she will swim better than their A swimmer. (Quote by - Brian Wilson)
When I have White, I win because I am white; When I have Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov. (Quote by - Bogolyubov)
There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess. (Quote by - Mortimer Collins)
That is what still amazes me: how much is contained in an easy-to-use interface. Like chess, [it takes] a moment to learn, [and] a lifetime to master. (Quote by - Dan Kilroy)
I'd rather have a Pawn than a finger. (Quote by - Reuben Fine)
Becoming successful at Chess allows you to discover your own personality. That's what I want for the kids I teach. (Quote by - Saudin Robovic)
It is no time to be playing Chess when the house is on fire. (Quote by - Italian Proverb)
It'll be a chess match, that first 20 minutes. (Quote by - Melody Davidson)
He knows what's going to happen before it happens. It's like playing a game of chess with him. He can see a couple moves ahead and orchestrate the game. (Quote by - Hilton Armstrong)
You have to have a niche, a place to play on the chess board. You needed to start running a year ago unless you're Preston. (Quote by - David Taras)
It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position. (Quote by - Richard Reti)
There must have been a time when men were demigods, or they could not have invented Chess. (Quote by - Gustav Schenk)
We're going to play the most sophisticated chess game, chess match ever known to man, with a virus. (Quote by - Pete Martinez)
Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people. (Quote by - Nigel Short)
Chess is not like life... it has rules!. (Quote by - Mark Pasternak)
There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine. (Quote by - Mikhail Tal)
My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
Chess teaches them things: to think, to plan, to concentrate and strategy. (Quote by - John Bare)
Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent. (Quote by - Mikhail Tal)
Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game. (Quote by - Siegbert Tarrasch)
Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble. (Quote by - Stanley Kubrick)
Jay Griffin taught a chess class and he decided to form the club. We met at Mother of Sorrows church for several years before moving to the First Presbyterian Church on Laird Road. (Quote by - Joe Lawlor)
Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world Chess Championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. (Quote by - Richard Dawkings)
In my 36 years experience, I've never been under any kind of clock, chess or otherwise. Judges move cases along, that's their function. But I've never heard of having to punch a clock. (Quote by - Alan Klein)
All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
We're always searching for the right hook. It never gets too complicated with us. It's checkers, not chess. (Quote by - Tyson Ritter)
Chess is the art of analysis. (Quote by - Mikhail Botvinnik)
No one ever won a game by resigning. (Quote by - Saviely Tartakower)
For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every Chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime. (Quote by - Eduard Gufeld)
The London Stock Exchange is a critical piece on the chess board. So you have to put a big premium on the price. (Quote by - Doug Atkin)
I am the best player in the world and I am here to prove it. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
Sailing is like chess on the water. (Quote by - Dave Reynolds)
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient. (Quote by - Aaron Nimzovich)
I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
In Chess, just as in life, today's bliss may be tomorrow's poison. (Quote by - Assaic)
Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately. (Quote by - Mikhail Botvinnik)
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the Chess player, not the Chess piece. (Quote by - Ralph Charell)
Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue. (Quote by - Reti)
There are many reasons to choose chess. It makes kids smart, it helps kids to focus. It helps them visualize what their opponent is going to play. They have to think ahead. (Quote by - Pam Hicks)
The hardest game to win is a won game. (Quote by - Emanuel Lasker)
At lunchtime the place is jumping, while at night the dining rooms could have been rented out for chess tournaments. (Quote by - Bryan Miller)
As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent. (Quote by - Jose Capablanca)
What would Chess be without silly mistakes? . (Quote by - Kurt Richter)
You have to be cool under pressure. You have to be a strategist like chess and you have to use geometry like billiards. (Quote by - Bill McBride)
I feel that my chess strengths are still here, .. I believe I can still improve. (Quote by - Garry Kasparov)
I prefer to lose a really good game than to win a bad one. (Quote by - David Levy)
Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules. (Quote by - Lars von Trier)
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. (Quote by - Emo Philips)
Different people feel differently about resigning. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
Of Chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not Chess. (Quote by - William Ewart Napier)
Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. (Quote by - Alexander Alekhine)
Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine. (Quote by - Mikhail Tal)
You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player. (Quote by - Jose Raul Capablanca)
I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket. (Quote by - Richard Fenton)
The kids beg for chess. They'd rather have extra chess time than prizes. (Quote by - Pam Hicks)
It's always a chess match this time of year. It's more mental than anything else and I don't want to say we feel confident about anyone, but we feel confident within our own game in what we can do and take away from people. (Quote by - Leslie Crane)
To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game. (Quote by - Savielly Tartakover)
Women use their sexuality to promote all kinds of sports, so why not chess. (Quote by - Maria Manakova)
I compare it to being like a chess game, because you have to think so many moves ahead. (Quote by - Steve Hamilton)
Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight. (Quote by - Jose Raul Capablanca)
The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind. (Quote by - Emanuel Lasker)
A player surprised is half beaten. (Quote by - Proverb )
Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. (Quote by - George Steiner)
A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror. (Quote by - Wilhelm Steinitz)
Chess is really ninety nine percent calculation. (Quote by - Soltis)
You can only get good at Chess if you love the game. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
Chess opens and enriches your mind. (Quote by - Saudin Robovic)
It's like a chess game. Defense is recognition. Those guys usually know us better than we know ourselves. That's why we just run the same things and give them all kinds of different looks. (Quote by - Don Breaux)
I am still a victim of Chess. It has all the beauty of art and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position. (Quote by - Marcel Duchamp)
When your house is on fire, you can't be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side. (Quote by - Gary Kasparov)
One bad move nullifies forty good ones. (Quote by - Horowitz)
I credit chess with helping to pull me out of depression and affording me a true circle of friends whom refuse to judge me for what they see on the outside. (Quote by - Bill Chandler)
Help your pieces so they can help you. (Quote by - Paul Morphy)
There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature. (Quote by - Stanley Ellin)
You cannot play at Chess if you are kind-hearted. (Quote by - French Proverb)
Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the ties which link Chess with the human soul. (Quote by - Al-Masudi)
We don't have the luxury of surprise that we once had. It's always a chess game, and you're trying to stay one move ahead of the competition. (Quote by - Joe Tiller)
I could go out to the studio he had in L.A. and hang around with him. We'd play chess. I later learned that was a real privilege. (Quote by - Rick Blackburn)
When the Chess game is over, the Pawn and the King go back to the same box. (Quote by - Irish saying)
That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess. (Quote by - Viktor Korchnoi)
It's an exciting sport to watch. It's a chess match, that's active. (Quote by - Robert Locke)
Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation. (Quote by - Max Euwe)
Chess is imagination. (Quote by - David Bronstein)
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
With chess, it's not an amusement. It's not a passive game. It takes thinking and anticipating and skill. There's strategy. (Quote by - Ken Siver)
Place the contents of the Chess box in a hat, shake them up vigorously, pour them on the board from a height of two feet, and you get the style of Steinitz. (Quote by - H. E. Bird)
If cunning alone were needed to excel, women would be the best Chess players. (Quote by - Albin)
It's a chess match. You play the game. (Quote by - Frank Cignetti Jr)
Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard. (Quote by - Reuben Fine)
Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine. (Quote by - Spielmann)
Man is a frivolous, a specious creature, and like a Chess player, cares more for the process of attaining his goal than for the goal itself. (Quote by - Dostoyevsky)
Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline. (Quote by - Mikhail Botvinnik)
We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature. (Quote by - Rudolf Spielman)
Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player. (Quote by - Euwe)
Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. (Quote by - Hindu proverb)
I've heard it called playing chess and pool at the same time, with people, because it's all about outwitting your opponent and knowing the angles. It requires a lot of training and practice. (Quote by - Matthew Clausen)
I give percent of my mental energy to Chess. Others give only percent. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. (Quote by - Emanuel Lasker)
We're getting people from Oklahoma. We have one guy who's driving down from Ardmore, Okla., to come to our chess club because he has to work when his local chess club meets. (Quote by - Michael Borys)
Football is a chess game. You always try to stay one move ahead. (Quote by - Joe Tiller)
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. (Quote by - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower)
The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing. (Quote by - Savielly Tartakover)
All I want to do, ever, is just play Chess. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game. (Quote by - Samuel Standige Boden)
Scholastic chess is experiencing a real resurgence. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, when it comes to kids playing chess. (Quote by - Jerry Nash)
The first half was like a chess match, and then things really opened up. Our defense came of age today, and we did a great job finishing the game. (Quote by - Jim Berkman)
Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card. (Quote by - Max Euwe)
Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley. (Quote by - Budd Schulberg)
The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. (Quote by - Savielly Tartakover)
Some crew chief has to be the best. In Top Fuel it's obviously Alan Johnson. I compare it to chess. We all basically have the same pieces and play on the same board, but some guys are just better than others. I can't give you an answer why and I bet Alan can't either. It's just the way it is. He's very expensive, but worth every penny. (Quote by - Tony Schumacher)
Chess is a beautiful mistress. (Quote by - Bent Larsen)
If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw. (Quote by - Jeremy Silman)
In my elementary school, there was a teacher who told us about the chess club, and I just liked it from the very first moment. Besides, my father gave a chess board to my brother, and it was very pretty. (Quote by - Nelly Estrada)
Every Chess master was once a beginner. (Quote by - Chernev)
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. (Quote by - Isaac Asimov)
Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity. (Quote by - Vladimir Nabokov)
Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half. (Quote by - Jan Tinman)
Poets do not go mad, but chess players do. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along. (Quote by - Terry Pratchett)
Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance. (Quote by - Richard Reti)
It was a little bit of a chess match. (Quote by - Gene McAteer)
This is like a chess match for me. I'm trying to understand who likes me and who doesn't because they won't tell you. A lot of guys have stats to throw around. Auburn isn't pass-oriented. We have to show up (to scouts) in other ways. I'm not nervous or anything, but there's a lot of anticipation. (Quote by - Anthony Mix)
The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature and the player on the other side is hidden from us. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
Excellence at Chess is one mark of a scheming mind. (Quote by - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused. (Quote by - Rudolph Spielmann)
Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life. (Quote by - Edward Morgan Foster)
Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents. (Quote by - Alexander Alekhine)
It's just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of Chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life. (Quote by - Martin Dansky)
It's a chess match every time we play them. (Quote by - Chris Lowery)
It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well. (Quote by - Siegbert Tarrasch)
Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to learn to be able to do. (Quote by - Maurice Ashley)
It's almost like a little chess match out there. . . . When you win, it's fun. When you lose, it's not so much fun. (Quote by - Curtis Joseph)
When it comes to fully understanding how to strategically move all the pieces on the marketing and distribution chess board on a worldwide basis, Jeff Blake is always thinking two moves ahead and that gives Sony a true competitive edge. He is the studio's secret weapon and while he would be the first to credit his fantastic sales and marketing team, there are few executives here that deserve more credit for our successes during the past several years than Jeff. (Quote by - Amy Pascal)
It's a chess game out there. For the coaching staff, sending and picking signs is the best part of the game. It becomes a cat-and-mouse game between you and the other guy. (Quote by - Gary Hatch)
All Chess players should have a hobby. (Quote by - Savielly Tartakower)
Without error there can be no brilliancy. (Quote by - Emanuel Lasker)
What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game. (Quote by - Siegbert Tarrasch)
Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!. (Quote by - Aaron Nimzowitsch)
Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists. (Quote by - Marcel Duchamp)
The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard. (Quote by - Aaron Nimzovich)
Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it. (Quote by - Judith Polgar)
The permutations and combinations are endless. It's like a game of three-dimensional chess. (Quote by - Sherry Bebitch Jeffe)
It was like a three-level chess game. (Quote by - Larry Wilder)
I love the chess match and trying to throw your talent in there and compete. But I like to figure out what my team's strengths are, play to them and not worry about what other team's strengths are. We need to do what we do and if other teams are good enough to beat us, they're going to beat us. (Quote by - Jay Johnson)
Chess is percent tactics. (Quote by - Teichmann)
Winning isn't everything... but losing is nothing. (Quote by - Mednis)
In the SEC, we're playing against teams that are very solid defensively. It's almost like a defensive chess match out there. I'd like to see us play with a little more patience. When we see a zone defense, we have the mentality to set-up offensively instead of attack. We need to play with more of a sense of urgency. (Quote by - Susan Walvius)
We're moving chess pieces all over the place, .. We're moving them so fast, it's hard to keep track of where everybody is. (Quote by - )
Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game. (Quote by - Wilhelm Steinitz)
No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness. (Quote by - Viktor Korchnoi)
Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory. (Quote by - Max Euwe)
The Pawns are the soul of the game. (Quote by - Francois Andre Danican Philidor)
In my apartment, I have a region with a chess table. This region wants to be in a den. (Quote by - Nick Nelson)
Many have become Chess Masters, no one has become the Master of Chess. (Quote by - Siegbert Tarrasch)
Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty. (Quote by - Dominic Lawson)
Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game. (Quote by - William Steinitz )
Tactics flow from a superior position. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
Like starting a non-profit, being a chess champion, or football champion. Something they had passion for and excelled at. (Quote by - Stacy Sullivan)
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!. (Quote by - Savielly Tartakower)
Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game. (Quote by - Nigel Short)
Why can't we discuss this in the context of the uprate? .. Entergy is plying a careful game of chess .. [Dry cask storage] is the next movement on the board .. I pray that you are not pawns in this game. (Quote by - Andrew Davis)
It's the next move in the chess game, .. don't really want to bargain together yet know they have to at some point. (Quote by - Richard Steinberg)
A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a matter of course. (Quote by - Siegbert Tarrasch)
I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings. (Quote by - Wilhelm Steinitz)
Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration. (Quote by - C. J. S. Purdy)
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. (Quote by - Savielly Tartakower)
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. (Quote by - Raymond Chandler)
At that level it's like a chess match on a bike. You've got to learn all the strategies. (Quote by - Anthony Gallino)
The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary. (Quote by - Aaron Nimzovich)
Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted. (Quote by - Vladimir Putin)
Some part of a mistake is always correct. (Quote by - Savielly Tartakover)
One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent. (Quote by - Siegbert Tarrasch)
In life, as in Chess, one's own Pawns block one's way. A man's very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him. (Quote by - Charles Buxton)
Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces. (Quote by - Akiba Rubinstein)
A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it. (Quote by - Wilhelm Steinitz)
There just isn't enough televised Chess. (Quote by - David Letterman)
Combination is a soul of chess. (Quote by - Alexander Alekhine)
In blitz, the Knight is stronger than the Bishop. (Quote by - Vlastimil Hort)
Chess has helped these kids with their academics. (Quote by - Henrietta Clemons)
If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)
Chess is not for timid souls. (Quote by - Wilhelm Steinitz)
