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