Top 100 Quotes About Chess Game
#1. A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third ... when you know you're going to lose!
Savielly Tartakower
#2. No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.
Chuck D
#3. Life, is a chess game you win or loose, but just keep playing.
Auliq Ice
#4. When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.
Michael Birch
#5. Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities are tragic, and in crime drama you rarely see the pain of bereavement or any consequences. It's reduced to a chess game.
Peter Capaldi
#6. A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.
Emanuel Lasker
#7. 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
#8. No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work of art, if these qualities do not lead to the main goal - the search for truth.
Vasily Smyslov
#9. Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him.
Marcus Du Sautoy
#10. Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.
Dave Barry
#11. Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.
Al Leiter
#12. We move like the chess game, first the white... then the black... the moves are too fast so far it's difficult to see it. But it's logical, isn't it?
Deyth Banger
#13. And so the argument was begun, progressing more in the silences than in the speeches, like a chess game played by mail.
Stephen King
#14. If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being shoved at some rook. I'll play my part, damn it, but I want the courtesy of being asked for my consent!
Thomm Quackenbush
#15. No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
Amar Bose
#16. A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.
Norbert Wiener
#17. Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.
Junior Seau
#18. It might have begun a bit like a chess game, but it had taken on its own momentum, and owned both of them.
Julie Anne Long
#19. It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.
Jimmy Smits
#20. Being a part of the Mafia was like being in a chess game where you had no idea if you were the queen or a pawn, until it was too late, until you lost the entire game or until you won.
Rachel Van Dyken
#21. Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.
Tom Cruise
#22. Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.
Budd Schulberg
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. You broke a man today. Doesn't that affect you at all? These are lives, not pieces in a chess game with your uncle.'
'You're wrong. We are on my uncle's board and these men are all his pieces.'
'Then each time you move one of them, you can congratulate yourself on how much like him you are.
C.S. Pacat
#26. 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
#27. Earlier in my career, I never thought of boxing as a chess game, but I confirm that they are, in fact, very similar. You can plan your fights and strategy just like you would in chess.
Wladimir Klitschko
#28. Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.
Mikhail Tal
#29. I stopped taking notes on my Palm Pilot and started playing the little chess game.
Roger Ebert
#30. Remy you're my king." I hug him hard. "There's no chess game for me without you.
Katy Evans
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. I'm the Pawn of chess game, whose aim is not to protect the King only but to become the Conqueror.
Samar Sudha
#34. Everything I was doing was like this chess game - full of second guesses, indecision, waiting.
Heather Demetrios
#35. Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.
Bobby Fischer
#36. 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
#37. Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.
Demian Maia
#38. Hell wasn't a major reservoir of evil, any more then Heaven, in Crowley's opinion, was a fountain of goodness; they were just sides in the great cosmic chess game. Where you found the real McCoy, the real grace and the real heart-stopping evil, was right inside the human mind.
Terry Pratchett
#39. 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
#40. Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.
Daniel Craig
#41. I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.
Anna Kendrick
#42. To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.
Frederick Lenz
#43. I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
Bobby Fischer
#44. Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.
John Rhys-Davies
#45. Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it
Bobby Fischer
#46. 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
#48. Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.
Crystal Woods
#49. Who the hell let you animals into my office?
I'll have you know I was playing a VERY unimportant game of chess right now with a man that kept saying King me.
Matt Fraction
#50. I play my enemies like a game of chess
Lauryn Hill
#51. My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me.
Viswanathan Anand
#52. She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.
Kate Chopin
#53. The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.
Howard Staunton
#54. Sometimes a Pawn is enough to change the whole game and those who ignore the importance of it, are liable to lose their Queen.
Sandeep Sharma
#55. Wilhelm Steinitz was the first man to appreciate the inherent logic behind the game of chess.
William Hartston
#56. When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.
Vladimir Kramnik
#57. That which Steinitz gave to the theoretical aspect of the game when he was at his best is very remote to all out home-bred chess philosophers, but with his views on Morphy, whom he tries to discredit completely, it is of course impossible to agree.
Alexander Alekhine
#58. I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#59. Today, some chess games can't go in 40 minutes. One game not every time can finish fast, sometimes it's difficult to win and the ways are odd.
Deyth Banger
#60. Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard
Reuben Fine
#61. So far a lot of battles I have won, so far I have reached the game with the chess puzzles 105 level out of 350.
Deyth Banger
#64. 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
#65. Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.
Dan Heisman
#66. Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
Karl Kraus
#67. 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
#68. Chess reflects the real world in miniature. Endeavor, struggle, success, and defeat - they are part of each game ever played.
Bruce Pandolfini
#69. What is the object of playing a gambit opening? ... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game
Siegbert Tarrasch
#70. Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#71. But I found in chess a very interesting game, especially the fact that a prisoner has total control over his pieces, which gives him some confidence back.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
#72. Those who know the marvels of chess and wonder why this game of all games does not enjoy greater popularity may also ask why Pepsi-Cola is consumed by more people than Chateau Lafite, or the Beatles are more familiar than Beethoven.
Gregor Piatigorsky
#73. 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
#74. Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative in maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels gratified, because it shows that the resources of the game are far from being exhausted.
Savielly Tartakower
#75. Chess is, in essence, a game for children. Computers have exacerbated the trends towards youth because they now have an immensely powerful tool at their disposal and can absorb vast amounts of information extremely quickly.
Nigel Short
#76. You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.
Tom Robbins
#77. Playing chess or Go or Tigris and Euphrates - a very good game, by the way - I can watch people as they choose their strategy and note how they respond to something I've done. Even
Jeffery Deaver
#78. And let's remember that science isn't a game of chess, although chess may be played scientifically. The other thing to remember is that if we are to organize the masses we must first organize ourselves.
Ralph Ellison
#79. I have just spent the better part of a week sorting out the miasma of lunatic alibis known as your correspondence in an effort to adjust matters, that our game may be finished simply once and for all.
Woody Allen
#80. Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
Bobby Fischer
#81. I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.
Maurice Ashley
#82. You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all.
Mark Lawrence
#83. I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.
Bobby Fischer
#84. The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished forever. Chess knowledge has become dominant, bypassing all the other factors that contribute to success.
Anatoly Karpov
#85. I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of chess and other events can seem quite unimportant in comparison with a catastrophe on the chessboard.
Vlastimil Hort
#86. A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality.
Marcel Duchamp
#87. It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#88. 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
#89. Only Uncle Pascha ignored her. He was contemplating his chessboard. She doubted that he'd move his piece today. It had been his turn for only six months. Once, he had gone three years between moves. He preferred a leisurely game.
Sarah Beth Durst
#90. The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game.
Kelly Corrigan
#91. 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
#92. This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled by modern Lombards pensive chess.
Isaac Asimov
#93. Chess is life and every game is like a new life.
Eduard Gufeld
#94. Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares
Miguel Najdorf
#95. Life is like a game of chess that you have to play even after losing the king.
Ashish Jaiswal
#96. The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
Thomas Huxley
#97. There is technology where you can watch the match live online and also on TV. If people understood the game, I'm sure we would have a lot of chess fans by now.
Viswanathan Anand
#98. All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.
Paolo Giordano
#99. Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and God endows it with its blessed power of making people happy.
Peter Weiss
#100. Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.
Christopher Bollen
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