Chess Game Quotes
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Chess Game Quotes & Sayings
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It can't be a great cosmic game of chess, it has to be just very complicated Solitaire.
— Terry Pratchett
The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [ ... ] Today's game was provided by Garry.
— Magnus Carlsen
Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard
— Reuben Fine
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
— Siegbert Tarrasch
The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
— Boris Spassky
If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.
— William McDonough
Pawns: they are the soul of this game, they alone form the attack and defense
— Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
It might have begun a bit like a chess game, but it had taken on its own momentum, and owned both of them.
— Julie Anne Long
The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.
— Richard Reti
Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.
— Warren Buffett
I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.
— Albert Einstein
I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.
— Jenny Frost
No one ever won a game by resigning.
— Savielly Tartakower
My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.
— Dave Barry
It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan
— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
How dreadful ... to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.
— Caroline Stevermer
Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.
— Garry Kasparov
The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed according to the sacrifices it contains.
— Rudolf Spielmann
It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men
— Savielly Tartakower
So far a lot of battles I have won, so far I have reached the game with the chess puzzles 105 level out of 350.
— Deyth Banger
All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis.
— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.
— Crystal Woods
Chess is and will always be a game of chance.
— Jan Hein Donner
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
Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all.
— Mikhail Chigorin
Chess is a fathead and feudal game.
— Georges Perec
Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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
— Siegbert Tarrasch
I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine
— Mikhail Tal
I'm the Pawn of chess game, whose aim is not to protect the King only but to become the Conqueror.
— Samar Sudha
Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated.
— Levon Aronian
Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game
— Siegbert Tarrasch
The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game
— Albert Einstein
Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares
— Miguel Najdorf
Sometimes a Pawn is enough to change the whole game and those who ignore the importance of it, are liable to lose their Queen.
— Sandeep Sharma
A relationship is a game of chess.
— Sophie Kinsella
Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.
— Vladimir Kramnik
But a man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end of it.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Chess is not a game, but a disease.
— Henry Campbell-Bannerman
In their figurative game of chess, Anthony Rawlings had Claire in check. Every move she made, he countered.
— Aleatha Romig
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
— Isaac Asimov
Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
— Max Euwe
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— Romain Edouard
All chess masters can play one game blindfolded.
— George Koltanowski
To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game
— Savielly Tartakower
That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
— Bobby Fischer
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.
— Alexander Alekhine
Chess is an easy game!
— Deyth Banger
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
— Gerald Abrahams
Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.
— Henry A. Kissinger
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
When Marx got into a difficult position he would get angry and losing a game would cause him to fly into a rage.
— Wilhelm Liebknecht
Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
— Bobby Fischer
I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.
— Bobby Fischer
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Every man needs a women, when his life in a trouble. just like a game of chess, queen protect the king
— Anuj Kr. Thakur
The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.
— Garry Kasparov
A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.
— Garry Kasparov
I felt that chess ... is a science in the form of a game ... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
— Bobby Fischer
Everything I was doing was like this chess game - full of second guesses, indecision, waiting.
— Heather Demetrios
I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
— Bobby Fischer
A game is always won through a mistake.
— Savielly Tartakower
Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.
— Demian Maia
Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.
— David Bronstein
You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.
— Tom Robbins
When she moves a chess piece on the board, it isn't so she can win; it's to move the game forward. She's just keeping us all moving forward.
— Danielle Stewart
Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
And so the argument was begun, progressing more in the silences than in the speeches, like a chess game played by mail.
— Stephen King
