Top 98 Life Chess Quotes
#1. Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.
Siegbert Tarrasch
#2. Life is a chess play. You have to learn the rules of the game to win the scores rights.
Auliq Ice
#3. In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
Isaac Asimov
#4. Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.
Susan Polgar
#5. You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.
Alexander Alekhine
#6. The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in cafes and clubs: a neurasthenic individual, whose nerves and brains are continually working at tension: a one-sided person who has given up his whole soul to chess.
Richard Reti
#7. For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime.
Eduard Gufeld
#8. Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life
E. M. Forster
#10. Life is like a game of chess ... there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move ... where you wind up is the sum total of all your past moves ... but first you have to make some kind of move.
Mort Walker
#11. You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.
Dorothy Dunnett
#12. Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to ... When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.
Ray Bradbury
#13. Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess.
Woody Allen
#14. You can't overestimate the importance of psychology in chess, and as much as some players try to downplay it, I believe that winning requires a constant and strong psychology not just at the board but in every aspect of your life.
Garry Kasparov
#15. Chess is most certainly not my life.
Tony Miles
#16. I ain't ... Don't know how to say it up right. Never
Fuck, Chess. Thought you was dead once before, you recall? Never felt so bad in my life, not ever. Then on the other day, thought you was gone and just ... I can't do it, bein without you.
Stacia Kane
#17. While reading Kasparov's book How Life Imitates Chess on my Kindle, I idly clicked on "popular highlights" to see what passages other readers had found interesting - and wound up becoming fascinated by a section on chess strategy I'd only lightly skimmed myself.
Clive Thompson
#19. ...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present.
JOURNALIST. And your plans.
PLAYER. To play!
Mikhail Tal
#20. Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?
Daniel J. King
#21. It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
Garry Kasparov
#22. Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move( ... )
Martin Amis
#23. As a personality, I'm fighter, you know. And I don't give up, and if I believe I'm correct, I'm right, then I work, and I fight. Okay, this could be over a chess board, this could be in life, and so I defend my principles.
Anatoly Karpov
#24. When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged with energy - as Faraday saw the stresses surrounding magnets and currents as curves in space; or as Van Gogh saw vortices in the skies of Provence.
Arthur Koestler
#25. I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.
Jenny Frost
#26. Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'
Daniel Tammet
#27. While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play Go.
Emanuel Lasker
#28. For chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.
H. Russell Wakefield
#29. Pawns are such fascinating pieces, too ... So small, almost insignificant, and yet
they can depose kings. Don't you find that interesting?
Lavie Tidhar
#30. The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.
Richard Reti
#31. Chess is not just a game. It is a way of life.
Avijeet Das
#32. Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time.
Dustin Diamond
#34. In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.
Vasily Smyslov
#35. The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling.
Amber Benson
#36. Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.
Frederick Lenz
#37. An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!
Anatoly Karpov
#38. Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.
Garry Kasparov
#39. All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.
Marcel Duchamp
#40. Life is more than just chess.
Though king dies, life goes on.
Toba Beta
#42. If u want to work in Corporate, then u should know how to play Chess.
Honeya
#43. His life was forever a chess game played on a roulette wheel. He'd had to take precise, informed, ball-dropping gambles to get where he'd been.
Debra Anastasia
#44. She'd been feeling pleased with a couple of moves, had thought she was gaining the upper hand. But she'd been overconfident. She'd failed to notice his stealthy approach until he turned the tables on her with a move she hadn't expected and now she was fighting for her life.
Emily Arden
#46. Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences.
Craig Brown
#47. Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard?
Aldous Huxley
#48. Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles
Garry Kasparov
#49. Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.
Jerome K. Jerome
#50. Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.
Chris Hardwick
#51. Life is like a chess. The most important is being a player not a figure. It doesn't matter you will win or lose.
Me
#52. All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.
Robert Browning
#53. My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.
Magnus Carlsen
#54. Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'.
Garry Kasparov
#55. Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.
Ron Livingston
#56. I have always felt that Judit was a relatively slow starter, though she is extremely motivated, diligent, hard-working, and disciplined towards her goals in chess and in life.
Susan Polgar
#57. Life is like a game of chess that you have to play even after losing the king.
Ashish Jaiswal
#58. Chess is life and every game is like a new life.
Eduard Gufeld
#59. Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
Seneca The Younger
#60. Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are acculated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life!
Alan Rufus
#61. It's a great huge game of chess that's being played
all over the world
if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join
though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.
Lewis Carroll
#62. Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.
Hans Ree
#63. We go through life trying to line up the chess pieces just right, but doing so is difficult. Something is always not quite to our liking. Health may not be perfect. Finances may not be perfect. Relationships may not be perfect.
Solomon Katz
#64. On the whole, the life of a chess professional is not as easy as it appears at first sight. One needs to devote some ten hours a day to chess and to everything connected with it - physical and psycholgical preparation.
Vladimir Kramnik
#67. Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher.
Yann Martel
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#72. 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
#73. Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.
Crystal Woods
#74. Life, is a chess game you win or loose, but just keep playing.
Auliq Ice
#75. We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life,which in the end we leave,only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.
Omar Khayyam
#76. 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
#77. My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.
Alexandra Kosteniuk
#78. Life isn't always like Chess. But sometimes it is. In a really difficult game, queen leaves board at the end. The difference is, you call it sacrifice in Chess.
Heshan Udunuwara
#79. For me, chess is not a profession, it is a way of life, a passion. People may feel that I have conquered the peak and will not have to struggle. Financially, perhaps that is true; but as far as chess goes, I'm still learning a lot!
Viswanathan Anand
#80. Every man needs a women, when his life in a trouble. just like a game of chess, queen protect the king
Anuj Kr. Thakur
#81. Life begins at six
at least in the minds of six-year-olds ... In kindergarten you are the baby. In first grade you put down the baby ... Every first grader knows in some osmotic way that this is real life ... First grade is the first step on the way to a place in the grown-up world.
Stella Chess
#82. In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him
Charles Buxton
#84. Apparently, the glasses didn't need to be connected to the internet for the wearer to poke into someone's personal life. Even though a search engine could lead to an individual's address, the browser couldn't actually physically take you there. What had this inventor done? Did he have any idea?
Chess Desalls
#85. Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
Henry Fielding
#87. In life, as in chess, it is always better to analyze one's motives and intentions.
Vladimir Nabokov
#88. IF her life had taught her anything, it was that you never really knew what people had going on beneath the surface. People were shit. The only difference between them and animals was people felt the need to hide it.
Stacia Kane
#89. I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.
Anatoly Karpov
#90. The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.
Emanuel Lasker
#91. Now hold on, little girl, my father said. Chess is like real life. The white pieces go first so they got an advantage over the black pieces.
Rion Amilcar Scott
#92. Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.
Benjamin Franklin
#93. The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.
Benjamin Franklin
#94. Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.
William Ewart Napier
#95. Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature.
Boyd Rice
#96. Life and light made up the interior, the realm of daytime. The exterior was darkness and night.
Chess Desalls
#97. Thinking more than a move ahead never got me anywhere in life. Only in chess. And even then it was sometimes a burden. I saw fifteen moves ahead once, in Norway, but there was a much easier path to victory, and I missed it. Looking into the future too hard, I've found can be paralyzing.
Jennifer DuBois
#98. It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
Bobby Fischer
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