Top 100 Quotes About Chess
#1. I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.
Viswanathan Anand
#2. If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess.
Paul Tudor Jones
#5. I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
Bobby Fischer
#6. People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
Nicolas Chamfort
#7. If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.
Stanley Kubrick
#9. When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.
Viswanathan Anand
#10. In itself the title of world champion does not give any significicant advantages, if it is not acknowledged by the entire chess world, and a champion who does not have the chess world behind him is, in my view, a laughing-stock.
Emanuel Lasker
#11. Everyone have a game, everyone is playing in his own game and his own game he is the king the others are the other figures from the chess.
Deyth Banger
#12. 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
#13. I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.
Chris Hardwick
#14. Chess isn't one of my favorites, it takes a cool calculating hatred to play well, and I'm not good at that.
Lilith Saintcrow
#15. The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.
Garry Kasparov
#16. If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.
Rex Stout
#17. In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.
Viswanathan Anand
#18. In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.
Emanuel Lasker
#20. 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
#21. Ralph ... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.
William Golding
#22. I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov
#23. Being in the military just lets you know how helpless you are. You could train forever but you're still at the mercy of someone in the Pentagon, or somebody in the rear moving you around like a chess piece.
Ice-T
#24. 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
#25. Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life
E. M. Forster
#29. I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.
Maurice Ashley
#30. 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
#31. Yeah, that's right, Doc: I'm Chess Pargeter, he's Ed Morrow-this is a gun, so's this. Now, I'm just gonna go outside and kill that big bastard, and if I come back in here and find Ed ain't been fixed in the interim, you best believe I will end you. Got that?
Gemma Files
#32. Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.
Vitali Klitschko
#33. Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
Nigel Short
#34. Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.
Vladimir Kramnik
#35. Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live with - and it lasts a lifetime.
Simen Agdestein
#36. Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.
Alexandra Kosteniuk
#37. Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.
Siegbert Tarrasch
#38. Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.
Anatoly Karpov
#39. It was like playing checkers, only to learn that your opponent was playing chess all along.
Barry Lyga
#40. Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.
Larry Fitzgerald
#41. After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired.
Anatoly Karpov
#42. Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#43. It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.
Courtney Love
#44. We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.
Arnon Goldfinger
#45. I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
Magnus Carlsen
#46. Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.
J.K. Rowling
#47. Because I have a passion for the play. My father was a chess teacher, and I learned the play of him as a small child. Occasionally I made another career; but now I have again the possibility of maintaining the passion of my early youth days.
Carmen Kass
#48. I don't like politics especially in chess. All I want is promote chess 24/7.
Susan Polgar
#49. A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.
Richard Reti
#50. Mr. Guppy suspects everybody ... of entertaining ... Sinister designs upon him ... he in the most ingenious manner takes infinite pains to counterplot, where there is no plot; and plays the deepest games of chess without any adversary
Charles Dickens
#51. The Block were not his enemy any more than the terror groups had been, however. They were just opponents in someone's obscene game of chess. It was stupid for a knight to hate a pawn just because it flew a different flag.
Evan Currie
#52. Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
Bobby Fischer
#53. Today, you can buy chess programs for $49 that will beat all but world champions, yet no one thinks they're intelligent.
Anonymous
#54. In the Soviet Union, for instance, the pressure on the chess stars was immense. When Boris Spassky came home after losing that match, he found he no longer had an apartment in Moscow.
Liz Garbus
#55. For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.
Vladimir Kramnik
#56. The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation.
Reuben Fine
#57. Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
Boris Spassky
#58. Hey, say you are looking at a chess board. Is there anything you can't see? No. But are you guaranteed to win? Not at all, because you can't see what the other guy is thinking.
Malcolm Gladwell
#59. Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression.
Reuben Fine
#60. There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely. That's what I don't like.
Bobby Fischer
#61. I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.
Mikhail Tal
#62. I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.
Paul Morphy
#63. 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
#64. In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound
Edgar Allan Poe
#65. Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.
Savielly Tartakower
#66. 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
#67. I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest chess player that could take random pieces of information and string them together into a scenario that was accurate. I never thought of him as a psychic at all. We need people like that.
Lance Henriksen
#68. A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.
Anthony Burgess
#69. Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.
Garry Kasparov
#70. Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
Bobby Fischer
#71. 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
#72. It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position
Vladimir Kramnik
#73. In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#74. Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately
Mikhail Botvinnik
#75. There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.
Bobby Fischer
#78. Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
Bobby Fischer
#79. In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
Isaac Asimov
#80. Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind
Bobby Fischer
#81. When you are drawing, you are always one or two marks ahead. You're always thinking, 'After what I'm doing here I'll go there, and there.' It's like chess or something. In drawing I've always thought economy of means was a great quality - not always in painting, but always in drawing.
Martin Gayford
#82. I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this.
John Harsanyi
#83. Chess isn't a game of speed, it is a game of speech through actions
Matt Selman
#84. And so without our primordial attachments to others, what would we be?
Evidently, we would be the players of a game, one that resembled a giant chess match, with our fellow human beings as the rooks, the knights, and the pawns. For this is the essence of sociopathic behavior, and desire.
Martha Stout
#85. Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, Here! Have them all!
Sophie Kinsella
#87. It is impossible to ignore a highly important factor of the chess struggle - psychology.
Yuri Averbakh
#88. Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.
Louis Dudek
#89. I felt that chess ... is a science in the form of a game ... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
Bobby Fischer
#90. For 'Inhuman,' it's a 'chess game' series. You have a lot of pieces moving different ways at once, and it's about what they do on their own and what happens when they collide into one another. It's about long-range planning, new character creation, and trying to really build things.
Charles Soule
#91. Those who say they understand Chess, understand nothing
Robert Hubner
#92. To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.
Mikhail Tal
#93. There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.
Maurice Ashley
#94. Life is a chess play. You have to learn the rules of the game to win the scores rights.
Auliq Ice
#95. The game of chess. Supposedly men made it up, and it's about war and men and the ravages and the bravery and the genius of commanding and moving pieces and ... No. It's marriage. The Queen moves anywhere she wants.
Bill Cosby
#96. As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine.
Levon Aronian
#97. Remy you're my king." I hug him hard. "There's no chess game for me without you.
Katy Evans
#98. [When asked how someone 6'3 had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.
Carol Mann
#99. The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.
Richard P. Feynman
#100. Like us as Black", beg the chess pieces," and you will anyway like us as White
Isaac Boleslavsky
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