Quotes About Checkmate

#1. 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

#2. The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#3. The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as the essence of the moment when you're beaten when you hear Checkmate, and can finally say, I trust you to kill me.

Rumi

#4. Checkmate leaves no weaknesses in its wake.

I.A. Horowitz

#5. On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.

Emanuel Lasker

#6. We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#7. If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.

Paul Williams

#8. 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

#9. As he explained to his officers and men, the war against Persia could not be finished until the shah, as the Persians called their king, was mat, or finished. The endgame had to be shah mat, a Persian phrase that would evolve in time into checkmate.

Philip Freeman

#10. Being on Facebook too much in a row is like playing chess in a black hole. You never know if the next move will lead you to a checkmate or a mate checked.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#11. She looked across the table the same time Ash looked up, dark eyebrows coming down low over blazing blue eyes. She grinned. Checkmate.

Joannah Miley

#12. Checkmate, bitch.

Richelle Mead

#13. It's hard to run from checkmate, checkmate is like the dead... but it's possible to block it. Unfortunately dead you can't block it, but checkmate can be blocked, in such way so the player can't make it.

Deyth Banger

#14. I could see, already, how this was going to end. "You'll have checkmate in three moves... Luckily for me," I told him, my fingers closing around my own queen, "I'll have checkmate in two.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#15. Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

Nigel Short

#16. In the name of God! You, demon, born in the dark! I seal you here! Checkmate!

Arina Tanemura

#17. If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!

John Green

#18. Be ready for every moment, you don't know which check is the checkmate.

M.F. Moonzajer

#19. Death is not a checkmate ... it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

Catherynne M Valente

#20. Tactics and Checkmate in 1 move, show me some interesting stuff about chess... so far I can say that I see the chessboard different.

Deyth Banger

#21. It'll be like a game of chess. We can let the game unfold as it did before, but if we want to avoid checkmate, we'll have to readjust the pieces a few moves shy of the finish.

Darren Shan

#22. The real question is: how will YOU checkmate the market and win in your business? Focus on the endgame and work backwards from there.

Danny Flood

#23. In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

Isaac Asimov

#24. Oh, God," Annabelle said feelingly, and turned her face against Hunt's shoulder, as if closing her eyes would make them all disappear. Her ear tingled as Hunt bent to murmur to her, his voice threaded with amusement. "Checkmate.

Lisa Kleypas

#25. the door was closed behind him, hiding in the shadows was Zlo wearing his normal attire but he had his back towards him like he pretended he didn't exist.

"Checkmate.

Charon Lloyd-Roberts

#26. When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn.

Howard Staunton

#27. In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess, if anybody claims he is better than I, I can checkmate him.

Emanuel Lasker

#28. He felt like a chess-master who, two moves from achieving checkmate, suddenly sees a live kitten dropped on to the middle of the board, scattering pieces.

Frances Hardinge

#29. Bad and bad and bad and bad move... and move and move just another checkmate...

Deyth Banger

#30. Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.

Savielly Tartakower