Chess Blitz Quotes

#1. Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#2. Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in 1913-14. In blitz games he gave all the St. Petersburg players odds of five minutes to one - and he won.

Alexander Alekhine

#3. Silence is a language not all people understand.

Abdel Halim Boudekhana

#4. You know that movie 'Dumb and Dumber'? If there's an addition of a third member, I'd get the part of 'Dumbest'.

Martin Reed

#5. The willingness to sacrifice that springs from a loving heart rather than the desire for spiritual distinction is surely acceptable to God. But, as in the case of Abraham's offering of his son Isaac, the sacrifice itself is not always finally required. What is required is obedience.

Elisabeth Elliot

#6. I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

Nigel Short

#7. Blitz chess kills your ideas.

Bobby Fischer

#8. What I fear in writing is the safe decision.

Anne Rice

#9. I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

Edmund Burke

#10. I dreamed I read the cards for you," she said.
"And?"
"And I predicted I would bring heartbreak and trouble into your life," she said.
"Too late," he said, staring down at their joined hands. "Heartbreak and trouble got there ahead of you.

Cinda Williams Chima

#11. It's a tricky art, working with them in their purest form," she mused. "Simultaneously simple yet infinitely complex." It sounded like my relationship with Adrian.

Richelle Mead

#12. There's a lot that goes into training, singers to eventually become performers. There's, projection, uh, which in many cases the artist was never concerned about.

Cholly Atkins

#13. He who analyses blitz is stupid.

Rashid Nezhmetdinov

#14. In blitz, the Knight is stronger than the Bishop

Vlastimil Hort

#15. If you're playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I got really good at blitz, one-minute chess games. But that's kind of like the cheap chess version.

Paul Banks

#16. The two horsewomen of the apocalypse still win, despite their dwindling numbers.

Melina Marchetta

#17. Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.

George Henry Lewes

#18. think our country sinks beneath the yoke. It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds. I

William Shakespeare

#19. When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.

Jackson Katz

#20. Everything in life has its price.

Paulo Coelho