Quotes About Chess Moves

#1. Chess is a game of bad moves.

Andrew Soltis

#2. Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

David Hockney

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances

Bobby Fischer

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.

Emanuel Lasker

#9. Check your moves well, because it can
cost one pawn or losing a lot of just from three moves!

Deyth Banger

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. In expert tennis, 80% of the points are won, while in amateur tennis, 80% are lost. The same is true for wrestling, chess, and investing: Beginners should focus on avoiding mistakes, experts on making great moves." Erik Falkenstein

Lucas Carlson

#13. My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.

Bobby Fischer

#14. Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when I reply, quite truthfully, 'as a rule not a single one'

Richard Reti

#15. A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

Madeleine Albright

#16. 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

#17. Television is like speed chess, as you have no time and no money. It is like trying to play Grandmaster chess with a 20 minute timer. The rewards are great, though, as it moves faster and you get to see the finished results much quicker.

Dean Devlin

#18. Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.

David Bronstein

#19. My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration

Bobby Fischer

#20. Chess players do not care about the pawns. They sacrifice the least powerful so they can hold on to their power.Your leaders play chess with your lives,but what the world does not yet know is that someone else whispers the moves as they play...

Catherine Linka

#21. Zugzwang. It's when you have no good moves. But you still have to move.

Michael Chabon

#22. I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame.

Steve Carell

#23. Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play one and the same opening system, even though it be rich in variations and nuances.

Efim Geller

#24. 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

#25. Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.

Kenneth Rogoff

#26. My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.

Anatoly Karpov

#27. The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic.

Boris Gelfand

#28. Levity and sincerity are not antonyms. We take pleasure in playing chess, but that does not mean we make wasteful moves. You

Claire North

#29. You will already have noticed how often Capablanca repeated moves, often returning to positions which he had had before. This is not lack of deciciveness or slowness, but the employment of a basic endgame principle which is 'Do not hurry'.

Alexander Kotov

#30. Bridget did not budge, and her face was without expression. She sat, quietly defeated like a chess player who lost a career match in less than four moves.

Emmie White

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.

Aleksandar Hemon

#35. Realize that the social media success equation isn't big moves on the chess board, it's little moves made every day that eventually add up to a major shift.

Jay Baer

#36. Repeating moves in an ending can be very useful. Apart from the obvious gain of time on the clock one notices that the side with the advantage gains psychological benefit.

Sergey Belavenets

#37. A draw can be obtained not only by repeating moves, but also by one weak move.

Savielly Tartakower

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves

Bobby Fischer

#42. When she moves a chess piece on the board, it isn't so she can win; it's to move the game forward. She's just keeping us all moving forward.

Danielle Stewart

#43. Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't really understand them.

Michael Stean

#44. By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.

Anatoly Karpov

#45. In chess puzzles and tactics you see moves which in game is difficult to see mainly because of time and more often from the fast moves...

Deyth Banger

#46. Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it's futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).

Bill Gaede

#47. Think of golf as chess. You have to think two or three moves ahead every time you hit the ball. Over every shot, you should be thinking, 'Where do I need to put this ball in order to make my next shot as easy as possible.

Gary McCord

#48. Tis action moves the world ... [in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.

Susanna Kearsley

#49. A plan is made for a few moves only, not for the whole game.

Reuben Fine

#50. Magic = Chess, Chess is with strategy, doing moves which people think that
they are random, but they aren't random. They are part of the strategy. The same is
in the magic. However, the magic, have the ability to distraction!

Deyth Banger

#51. I'm playing checkers while they're playing chess
They make the big moves that make me a little less
Even when I win and beat the pants off of the best
I'm still playing checkers while they're playing chess

Billy Joe Shaver

#52. 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

#53. The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several moves ahead to set up your opponent.

Brad Lidge