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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
Regardless of Bobby's recent hate-filled rantings, which I abhor, he is nonetheless one of the greatest chessplayers of all time.
— Frank Brady
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
Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.
— Max Euwe
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 are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely. That's what I don't like.
— Bobby Fischer
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
Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.
— Mal Peet
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
Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.
— C.S. Lewis
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
Today, some chess games can't go in 40 minutes. One game not every time can finish fast, sometimes it's difficult to win and the ways are odd.
— Deyth Banger
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
Terrible's eyes narrowed; he gave Chess the kind of look most people reserved for ax murderers. Ax murderers who killed children. And kittens.
— Stacia Kane
Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.
— Tom Cruise
Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.
— Eloisa James
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
"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
The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.
— Max Euwe
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
We move like the chess game, first the white... then the black... the moves are too fast so far it's difficult to see it. But it's logical, isn't it?
— Deyth Banger
If you were to say a witch's chess set instead of a witch's family, there would be some truth in that. Perhaps this is true of other families as well.
— Kelly Link
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
Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess
— Frank Brady
It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
— Garry Kasparov