Chess Playing Quotes
Collection of top 44 famous quotes about Chess Playing
Chess Playing Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Chess Playing quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
— Magnus Carlsen
Listening to a book and in the same time playing chess is one of the best decision ever made.
— Deyth Banger
Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.
— Jennifer Shahade
Ralph ... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
— William Golding
Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere.
— Edmar Mednis
You have good instincts,trust them. Thinking through every step is fine if you're playing chess, but this isn't chess.
— Rick Yancey
An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!
— Anatoly Karpov
I got arrested for playing chess in the street. I said, it's because I'm black, isn't it.
— Milton Jones
He was playing chess and she was sucking at checkers.
— Karin Slaughter
Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.
— Henry A. Kissinger
I think I can safely conclude that there is not a lot to be said for playing chess while on Valium.
— Tony Miles
And he calls it playing? Like, whatever happened to chess? Or cards? Or tag?
— Cherise Sinclair
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
— David Hockney
Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money
— Benjamin Franklin
Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces
— Akiba Rubinstein
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
Don't worry about your rating, work on your playing strength and your rating will follow.
— Dan Heisman
You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer
— Andrew Soltis
I thought I was playing the world champion, not some 27-eyed monster who sees everything in all positions.
— Tony Miles
Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.
— John Ortberg
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
It is not enough to be a good player ... you must also play well
— Siegbert Tarrasch
It was like playing checkers, only to learn that your opponent was playing chess all along.
— Barry Lyga
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 feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow.
— Jerry Spinelli
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.
— Alexander Alekhine
Levity and sincerity are not antonyms. We take pleasure in playing chess, but that does not mean we make wasteful moves. You
— Claire North
Let the perfectionist play postal.
— Yasser Seirawan
Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
Downright ridiculous legislation (such as laws specifically prohibiting blacks and whites from playing chess together).
— Michelle Alexander
Every Chess master was once a beginner
— Irving Chernev
