Old Chess Sayings

#1. If you can hear the birds singing, you're in the right place

Benny Bellamacina

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. You are never too old to play chess!

Bobby Fischer

#5. 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

#6. There's just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It's not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it's that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don't see what you wish to see - or glimpse something that you wish weren't there.

Dean Koontz

#7. You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

Bobby Fischer

#8. I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

John Turturro

#9. Underneath the picture of a really old guy, Lisa read, "Chess, like music and love, has the power to make men happy.

Jesse Kraai

#10. Daniel Wolpert, of Cambridge University, is fond of pointing out that IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer is capable of beating a grand master at the game of chess, but no computer has yet been developed that can move a chess piece from one square to another as well as a 3-year-old child.

Stuart Firestein

#11. Love is not a candle burning down. Life is. And love and life are not the same or else Love, having choice, nobody would ever die.

Charles Bukowski

#12. The basis of everything I do is the universe.

Alexander Calder

#13. I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.

Garry Kasparov

#14. Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of a wink, a self-portrait and not much more.

Dumitru Tepeneag

#15. In a battle of wills, of the gods of old. For each his revenge, will he forfeit his soul. On the chess board of blood, will their narrative play. aged, innocent lives, revenge claims her way. Out of hate will come love, and love will come hate. For immortal and man, have entwined their damned fate.

L.A. Starkey

#16. The sunlight, penetrating the gaps in the tall trees, plays chess on the gravestones, shifting slowly and thoughtfully across the worn old stones. The wind, like a hundred violins, plays perpetually in the topmost branches of the deodars.

Ruskin Bond

#17. I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a
coffee cup in a park for old men playing
chess or silly games of some sort.

Charles Bukowski

#18. There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.

David Levithan

#19. It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King's Gambit against a representative of the old chess guard.

David Bronstein

#20. The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession

Mikhail Botvinnik

#21. Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.

Alexey Suetin

#22. She didn't watch the dead, ancient bone-chess cities slide under, or the old canals filled with emptiness and dreams. Past dry rivers and dry lakes they flew, like a shadow of the moon, like a torch burning.

Ray Bradbury

#23. ...mention chess and most people's eyes glaze over. They think of two old geezers, one of whom has died but no one has noticed, in overstuff armchairs at the Diogenes Club.

Charles Krauthammer

#24. She had often dreamed of going to a teahouse to play chess or argue esoteric scholarly points with students and feisty old men and women. It was a dream forbidden to a royal princess, of course.

Liz Braswell