Chess Masters Quotes

#1. When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee.

Israel Albert Horowitz

#2. Method rules his training, which blends the physical with the mental. How many chess masters put in, prior to an important match, an allotted time daily to bicycling and shadow-boxing, followed by a cold douche and a brisk rub down?

Hans Kmoch

#3. All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may perhaps seem unjust that all their beautiful ideas get no other recognition than a zero on the tournament table.

Bent Larsen

#4. The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All the changes of a cultural, political, and psychological background are reflected in the style and ideas of their play.

Garry Kasparov

#5. All chess masters can play one game blindfolded.

George Koltanowski

#6. Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess.

Siegbert Tarrasch

#7. Why are most chess masters under 30?

Mark Zuckerberg

#8. Oftentimes, the way it seems to be is that our artists in particular point themselves out as spokesmen for a certain constituency in a community, and thereby place themselves in that vulnerable position.

Gil Scott-Heron

#9. In fact my favourite thing is the wig because I'm a very lazy actor so every time I put it on, in order to keep it straight, they kept on telling me to tip my head back because otherwise I was eating it all the time.

Jason Isaacs

#10. No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#11. Chess will always be the master of us all.

Alexander Alekhine

#12. In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

Emanuel Lasker

#13. Alekhine evidently possesses the most remarkable chess memory that has ever existed. It is said that he remembers by heart all the games played by the leading masters during the last 15-20 years.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#14. The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.

Rumi

#15. None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#16. You look so good it hurts sometimes.

John Mayer

#17. Brand loyalty - that nebulous emotional connection people have with certain companies, which turns them into defenders and advocates for corporations who don't give a shit.

David McRaney

#18. If there is any form of contagion that is adaptive, it is the immediate response to the fear of others. If others are fearful, there may be good reason for you to be fearful too.

Frans De Waal

#19. The study of combinations should enrich the analytical spirit of studious amateurs. Thereafter the most gifted among them will be able to catch some sparks of the genius of masters, and in addition some rays of the glory that is the masters.

Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

#20. The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#21. This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to be quite useful to this end.

Jan Hein Donner

#22. Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with plans for the middle game.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#23. If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#24. Working in a prison, is, to my mind, similar in ways to working in a coal mine. It's going to scare away a lot of people.

Jennifer Haigh

#25. I love the game - and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.

Bobby Fischer

#26. You can either wonder or worry. It is better to choice the former.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out' the audience by playing exchanging variations?

Savielly Tartakower

#28. Armani is a fashion house that I think is iconic and beautiful.

Megan Fox

#29. The miracle is when you shift. The miracle is when you know there is no hill - you're removing the hill. The miracle is when you realize the time of physical decline can be a time of spiritual incline.

Marianne Williamson

#30. I begin to suspect," said the curate, after a pause, "that the common transactions of life are the most sacred channels for the spread of the heavenly leaven.

George MacDonald

#31. Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.

Gerald Abrahams

#32. It is true that, when an entitlement begins to be enjoyed by people, they like to keep it.

Jon Kyl

#33. There's a miracle there, but there's something so awful about it too, bringing someone into all this now, this world where a girl can't even trust a drink that passes her lips. I can't figure out the kind of heart it takes to do something like that.

Courtney Summers

#34. We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.

Hod Lipson