Top 100 Chess Chess Quotes
#1. Magic = Chess, Chess is with strategy, doing moves which people think that
they are random, but they aren't random. They are part of the strategy. The same is
in the magic. However, the magic, have the ability to distraction!
Deyth Banger
#2. It's not only the myths surrounding chess. Chess itself is a myth, you know? A game of hierarchy, of war. It's a story that people have been using to explain complex concepts for eons. Mathematics, yes. Geometry. Business. Philosophy. Even love.
Skye Warren
#3. Then you'll love chess. Chess is checkers on steroids.
Rick Yancey
#4. Her sigh felt dragged from the depths of her soul. Great. Working for Bump again.
Stacia Kane
#6. I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
Bobby Fischer
#7. Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.
John Rhys-Davies
#8. Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result ... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.
Emanuel Lasker
#9. Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
Bobby Fischer
#10. A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third ... when you know you're going to lose!
Savielly Tartakower
#11. Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +-
Mark Dvoretsky
#12. India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.
Judit Polgar
#13. Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.
Mikhail Botvinnik
#14. I learnt an enormous amount, but there came a point where I found there was too much stress. It was no fun any more. Outside of the chessboard I avoid conflict, so I thought this wasn't worth it.
Magnus Carlsen
#15. There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'.
David Bronstein
#16. We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to its subject. Just as there is no such thing as 'artistic' art, so there is no such thing as 'positional' chess.
Samuel Reshevsky
#17. In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.
Garry Kasparov
#18. Nervous energy is the ammunition we take into any mental battle. If you don't have enough of it, your concentration will fade. If you have a surplus, the results will explode.
Garry Kasparov
#20. The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?
Bobby Fischer
#21. No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.
Chuck D
#22. Sienna Rivers, ex-nerd, undisputed reigning chess champion of the class of 09 and the proverbial all round wise-ass degenerate pain in your backside.
Ali Harper
#23. Life, is a chess game you win or loose, but just keep playing.
Auliq Ice
#24. 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
#25. And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.
Ezra Pound
#27. Wouldn't you rather play chess, Ma'am? ... It's less destructive of clothes.
Rowena Cherry
#28. 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
#29. Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.
Viswanathan Anand
#30. I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it's chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that, but I think there's something so important to gain from winning and losing and learning how to lose and how you can be better from that.
Hilary Swank
#32. Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.
Crystal Woods
#33. Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [ ... ] But Anand proved that even this obscure line is something he has studied before, and it was Carlsen that was set back.
Alejandro Ramirez
#35. Who the hell let you animals into my office?
I'll have you know I was playing a VERY unimportant game of chess right now with a man that kept saying King me.
Matt Fraction
#36. Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
Magnus Carlsen
#37. When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.
Michael Birch
#38. The Ruy Lopez occupied a constant place in my opening repertoire. In it is reflected the classical interpretation of the problem of the centre.
Vasily Smyslov
#39. Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost.
Yuri Razuvaev
#40. I play my enemies like a game of chess
Lauryn Hill
#41. Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players have castled on opposite sides.
Alexander Kotov
#42. Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer
Mike Goodall
#43. I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.
Steven Johnson
#44. A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without giving him the satisfaction of a lover.
Gregor Piatigorsky
#45. My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me.
Viswanathan Anand
#46. Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates.
Justine Larbalestier
#47. I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study (the Bible) an hour. You know, I
was half out of my head-stoned almost.
Bobby Fischer
#48. The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature
Stanley Ellin
#50. The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.
Howard Staunton
#51. She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.
Kate Chopin
#52. You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world and current affairs. I also have many friends around the world with whom I like to keep in touch.
Viswanathan Anand
#53. The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.
Howard Staunton
#54. Sometimes a Pawn is enough to change the whole game and those who ignore the importance of it, are liable to lose their Queen.
Sandeep Sharma
#55. Wilhelm Steinitz was the first man to appreciate the inherent logic behind the game of chess.
William Hartston
#56. When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.
Vladimir Kramnik
#57. I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I was 16 years old. In other sports, if you have been playing for seven years, you are not a young prodigy any more. You're one of the pros.
Magnus Carlsen
#58. That which Steinitz gave to the theoretical aspect of the game when he was at his best is very remote to all out home-bred chess philosophers, but with his views on Morphy, whom he tries to discredit completely, it is of course impossible to agree.
Alexander Alekhine
#59. I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#60. In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
Bruno Schulz
#61. 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
#62. Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard
Reuben Fine
#63. When I was in grade school I was into chess club, Latin club, D&D, computer camp - everything that made vaginas go away.
Chris Hardwick
#64. Living together/ is one move closer/ to living apart
Kristi Maxwell
#65. So far a lot of battles I have won, so far I have reached the game with the chess puzzles 105 level out of 350.
Deyth Banger
#66. When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children's book for the times.
Rick Riordan
#67. [Professor Bragg asserts that] In sodium chloride there appear to be no molecules represented by NaCl. The equality in number of sodium and chlorine atoms is arrived at by a chess-board pattern of these atoms; it is a result of geometry and not of a pairing-off of the atoms.
Henry Edward Armstrong
#68. Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance
Garry Kasparov
#69. In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move.
Josh Waitzkin
#71. The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.
Richard Reti
#72. You will already have noticed how often Capablanca repeated moves, often returning to positions which he had had before. This is not lack of deciciveness or slowness, but the employment of a basic endgame principle which is 'Do not hurry'.
Alexander Kotov
#73. I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.
Christopher Meloni
#74. Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.
A.A. Milne
#75. I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It's not like I'm trying to make the right chess move. It's more just that personal thing where you get connected to something for so long and then you want to do something that's in opposition to that.
Anna Kendrick
#76. Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.
Mikhail Tal
#77. On traditional economic theory:
We do not play chess as if we were a grandmaster, invest as if we were Warren Buffett, or cook like an Iron Chef. It is more likely we cook like Warren Buffett, who loves to eat at Dairy Queen.
Richard H. Thaler
#78. It was like trying to make a move at chess when you were already mated.
George Orwell
#80. One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.
Scarlett Thomas
#82. I don't know if people know this but I am pretty good at chess. I was always on the chess team at school when I was younger.
Justin Bieber
#83. Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy.
Wahida Clark
#84. People, she was discovering, were like cockroaches: If you allowed one in, more were sure to follow.
Stacia Kane
#85. Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.
Dan Heisman
#86. When I analyse a position, I have a sparring partner who understands chess amazingly well. In a way I feel sorry for him, because of his work with me he cannot play as much chess as he wants. He more or less gave up his playing career.
Boris Gelfand
#87. The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand Master chess player. Once you get one, then I'll buy some of the feminism ...
Pat Robertson
#88. Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.
Jacques Barzun
#90. Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
Karl Kraus
#91. I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.
Robert Mundell
#94. One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.
Magnus Carlsen
#95. In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.
Pal Benko
#96. It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.
Savielly Tartakower
#97. I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
Soren Kierkegaard
#98. Fortunately I've got a weak character, so I never did decide to dedicate myself to only one of my professions. And I'm very glad. After all, if I'd rejected chess or music then my life wouldn't have been two times, but a hundred times less interesting.
Mark Taimanov
#100. Chess reflects the real world in miniature. Endeavor, struggle, success, and defeat - they are part of each game ever played.
Bruce Pandolfini
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