Chess Play Quotes: top 78 famous quotes about Chess Play

Chess Play Quotes & Sayings

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To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess. — Mikhail Tal

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game — Siegbert Tarrasch

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife) — Alexander Pushkin

I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them. — Emo Philips

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

If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white. — Zenna Henderson

He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker. — Warren G. Harding

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son. — John Turturro

The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life. — Paul Morphy

The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature — Stanley Ellin

You are never too old to play chess! — Bobby Fischer

One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent — Siegbert Tarrasch

Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color? — Bobby Fischer

Life is like a game of chess that you have to play even after losing the king. — Ashish Jaiswal

Play as often as you can. — Mary Anne Radmacher

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type. — Michelle Rodriguez

To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player. — David Bronstein

Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals. — Perry DeAngelis

I play chess, but my past is checkered,
The mic and I are like staff and shepherd. — Ka

Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next. — Bobby Fischer

Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess. — Louis Dudek

When you play chess alone it's always your move. — Charles Simic

Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in. — Edmar Mednis

Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy. — Alexander Alekhine

Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever — Dave Regis

Life is a chess play. You have to learn the rules of the game to win the scores rights. — Auliq Ice

All I ever want to do is just play chess. — Bobby Fischer

I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder — Miguel Najdorf

You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela. — Che Guevara

No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics. — Samuel Reshevsky

If u want to work in Corporate, then u should know how to play Chess. — Honeya

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess — Bobby Fischer

Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature. — Garry Kasparov

I am usually more impressed with people who are artful in shuffling a deck, than those who can masterfully play chess. — Lionel Suggs

I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play. — Anatoly Karpov

It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer — Mikhail Tal

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it. — Al Leiter

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess. — Bobby Fischer

I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else. — Bobby Fischer

In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated. — Leonid Shamkovich

If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers. — Mark Miller

I play my enemies like a game of chess — Lauryn Hill

I don't know what I am going to play, so how can he know what I am going to play! — Arthur Bisguier

Wouldn't you rather play chess, Ma'am? ... It's less destructive of clothes. — Rowena Cherry

Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out. — Gloria Steinem

AI will begin as Artificial Idiocy. Who cares if a computer can play chess or take control of cyberspace? Can it trash Tokyo, huh, huh? — Hal Duncan

Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now — Drake

To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence. — Frederick Lenz

No fool can play chess, and only fools do. — Marc Lowrance

All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned. — Siegbert Tarrasch

All chess masters can play one game blindfolded. — George Koltanowski

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol. — Nigel Short

Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part. — Leonid Shamkovich

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly. — Alexandra Kosteniuk

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

Let's play. I'm willing to play anywhere. — Bobby Fischer

Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it — Judit Polgar

My God, Bobby Fischer plays so simply — Alexey Suetin

I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.' — Ricky Schroder

...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present.

JOURNALIST. And your plans.
PLAYER. To play! — Mikhail Tal

My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play. — Vasily Smyslov

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 — Aristotle.

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back. — Anatoly Karpov

It is not enough to be a good player ... you must also play well — Siegbert Tarrasch

All I want to do, ever, is play chess. — Bobby Fischer

The art of chess is in knowing which is the most valuable piece in play, then having the courage to sacrifice it for the win. — Thomm Quackenbush

I don't play chess with my life, ya' know. — Russell Crowe

You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills. — Anatoly Karpov

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways. — Vladimir Kramnik

Never play for the win, never play for the draw, just play chess! — Alexander Khalifman

Let the perfectionist play postal. — Yasser Seirawan

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw ... — Nigel Short

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess.
- Ch. 5 — Amy Tan

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. — Viktor Korchnoi

I often play a move I know how to refute. — Bent Larsen

Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite. — Yuri Razuvaev

Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess. — Anatoly Karpov

Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight. — Jacques Barzun