Chess Quotes
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Chess Quotes & Sayings
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By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion
— Garry Kasparov
The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [ ... ] Today's game was provided by Garry.
— Magnus Carlsen
Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.
— Eric Bogosian
Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard
— Reuben Fine
If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.
— William McDonough
Often, in the Ruy Lopez, one must be patient, wait and carry on a lengthy and wearisome struggle.
— Boris Spassky
The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.
— Richard Reti
Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.
— William Ewart Napier
I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.
— John Turturro
The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.
— Richard P. Feynman
The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.
— Garry Kasparov
How dreadful ... to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.
— Caroline Stevermer
Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline
— Mikhail Botvinnik
Chess is one long regret.
— Stephen Leacock
Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
— Boris Spassky
Chess is a cold bath for the mind
— John Simon
Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.
— Vladimir Kramnik
When you consider that only an estimated 15 percent of the US population plays chess, its cultural prominence is extraordinary. It
— Garry Kasparov
Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.
— Louis Dudek
Living together/ is one move closer/ to living apart
— Kristi Maxwell
I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
— Garry Kasparov
Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.
— Garry Kasparov
You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
— Garry Kasparov
Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.
— Henry A. Kissinger
Chess isn't one of my favorites, it takes a cool calculating hatred to play well, and I'm not good at that.
— Lilith Saintcrow
In Kansas I have a chess school.
— Anatoly Karpov
We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.
— Viswanathan Anand
Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
— Bobby Fischer
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
— Marcel Duchamp
The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic.
— Boris Gelfand
Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.
— William Hartston
I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.
— Bobby Fischer
It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.
— David Bailey
All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned.
— Siegbert Tarrasch
With magic almost anything was possible; all objects had energy, and energy could be manipulated.
— Stacia Kane
The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc.
— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf
— Cecil Purdy
I do not know to whom the aphorism 'There are no sound studies, only ones that haven't been busted yet' belongs, but it has measure of truth in it.
— Mark Dvoretsky
The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.
— Garry Kasparov
All chess masters can play one game blindfolded.
— George Koltanowski
A great chess player always has a very good memory.
— Leonid Shamkovich
Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces
— Akiba Rubinstein
For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime.
— Eduard Gufeld
The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.
— Savielly Tartakower
Chess, like love, is infectious at any age.
— Salo Flohr
It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.
— Alexandra Kosteniuk
Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part.
— Leonid Shamkovich
I don't simply create probabilities, I guide them.
— Lionel Suggs
Every man needs a women, when his life in a trouble. just like a game of chess, queen protect the king
— Anuj Kr. Thakur
Time trouble is blunder time.
— Alexander Kotov
Death stoops over me.I'm a problem in chess. He
has the solution. — Tomas Transtromer
Football is like chess, only without the dice.
— Lukas Podolski
Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.
— Samuel Reshevsky
Checkers is for tramps
— Paul Morphy
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.
— Terry Pratchett
I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
— Bobby Fischer
In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master.
— Vasily Smyslov
Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer.
— Garry Kasparov
The first essential for an attack is the will to attack.
— Savielly Tartakower
Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.
— Garry Kasparov
I played like a child.
— Magnus Carlsen
I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.
— Dennis Miller
Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!
— Alexander Kotov
I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.
— Saffron Burrows
The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard
— Aron Nimzowitsch
Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.
— Pablo Picasso
Tactics and Checkmate in 1 move, show me some interesting stuff about chess... so far I can say that I see the chessboard different.
— Deyth Banger
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates.
— Justine Larbalestier
No fool can play chess, and only fools do.
— Marc Lowrance
All Chess players should have a hobby
— Savielly Tartakower
The strategist is a chess player thrown into life.
— VIRGIL PROFEANU
Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.
— Richard Reti
Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed whatFischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board — Mikhail Botvinnik
When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'
— Mikhail Tal
To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.
— Frederick Lenz
In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.
— David Bronstein
Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.
— Samuel Reshevsky
I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.
— Anatoly Karpov
In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth
— Edmar Mednis