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Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.
— Tony Robbins
I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.
— Magnus Carlsen
The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [ ... ] Today's game was provided by Garry.
— Magnus Carlsen
Las Vegas is a beautiful place. I like it more and more and plan to be here often. It's a great place for chess.
— Anatoly Karpov
Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.
— Eric Bogosian
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
— Magnus Carlsen
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
I got arrested for playing chess in the street. I said, it's because I'm black, isn't it.
— Milton Jones
A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.
— Savielly Tartakower
There's no one alive I can't beat.
— Bobby Fischer
Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality.
— David Bronstein
The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature
— Stanley Ellin
One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent
— Siegbert Tarrasch
They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned.
— Marjane Satrapi
It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men
— Savielly Tartakower
Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns
— Siegbert Tarrasch
There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.
— Maurice Ashley
My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.
— Michelle Rodriguez
I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.
— Garry Kasparov
Life's too short for chess.
— Henry James Byron
There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
— Bobby Fischer
When you play chess alone it's always your move.
— Charles Simic
I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.
— Bobby Fischer
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year ... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame.
— Lubomir Kavalek
The world championship is a disputed title. You've got a situation like boxing. Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified.
— Yasser Seirawan
I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.
— Lou Gerstner
Chess is not relaxing; it's stressful even if you win.
— Jennifer Shahade
Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.
— Mikhail Tal
An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
In life, as in chess, it is always better to analyze one's motives and intentions.
— Vladimir Nabokov
After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game
— Howard Staunton
You must not have played chess in a while. The king is the weakest piece in the game." He gave Justin a level look. "The queen's the strongest.
— Richelle Mead
Stay calm. It's like chess. Move and countermove.
— Rick Yancey
Most of the gods throw dice but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out until too late that he's been using two queens all along. Fate wins.
— Terry Pratchett
Chess is a time game, it's a game of patience. That pretty much defines how I run the ball.
— Priest Holmes
He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess
— Siegbert Tarrasch
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
It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.
— Alison Gopnik
There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.
— Garry Kasparov
In chess it is more important to frustrate your opponent's strategy than to be obsessed with your own.
— Larry Evans
I like the moment when I break a man's ego
— Bobby Fischer
Before Geller we did not understand the King's Indian Defence.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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
You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.
— Bobby Fischer
Life's to short for chess.
— Henry James Byron
When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at.
— Dominic Lawson
Did Cap'n Vidious leave that? He is such a cuddlebunny." "Yeah," I said, "that's exactly how I'd describe him. — Joel N. Ross
Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.
— Yasser Seirawan
The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.
— Vasily Smyslov
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
The boy (then a 12 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
— Mikhail Botvinnik
We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature
— Rudolf Spielmann
Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.
— Richard Reti
It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.
— Alexandra Kosteniuk
Let's play. I'm willing to play anywhere.
— Bobby Fischer
My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.
— Anatoly Karpov
The battle for the ultimate truth will never be won. And that's why chess is so fascinating.
— Hans Kmoch
That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
— Bobby Fischer
As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine.
— Levon Aronian
In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.
— Garry Kasparov
It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King.
— Terry Pratchett
The day Chess Pargeter looks t' engage himself with any woman's situation'll be a cold one in the Hot Place for sure
— Gemma Files
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
It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
— Garry Kasparov
