Top 30 Short Chess Quotes
#1. If we want to be respected and honored when we're older, then we must lay the groundwork by respecting and honoring the elders we meet in our lives today. How we treat them today is the way we'll be treated later.
Louise Hay
#2. I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.
Nigel Short
#5. Diabetes is passed that way
over and down, like a knight in chess.
Maile Meloy
#7. I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.
Nigel Short
#8. Another time-honored ploy: A woman is less likely to throw you out if she's offered her hospitality. If you have allergies or a cold, asking for a tissue is even better. Women love vulnerability. Most women.
Gillian Flynn
#10. One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'
Nicolas Cage
#12. Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them.
Michael Ian Black
#13. You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.
Alexander Alekhine
#14. Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
Nigel Short
#15. I'm as fond of my body as anyone, but if I can be 200 with a body of silicon, I'll take it. - DANIEL HILL, COFOUNDER OF THINKING MACHINES CORP.
Michio Kaku
#17. Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game
Nigel Short
#18. If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.
Nigel Short
#19. I cannot claim to thoroughly enjoy coaching, because it is very hard work if you are even moderately conscientious. Nevertheless it does provide a degree of satisfaction - not to mention a steady income, which is why I do it occasionally.
Nigel Short
#20. A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea is to deceive (the) public and to make short draws and go home. It's not true. It's a lie.
Boris Gelfand
#22. I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.
Joanne Harris
#23. If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom.
Donald Justice
#24. Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy to recommend faith and not so easy to practise it.
Fred Reinfeld
#25. I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
Ian McKellen
#26. Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#27. I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw ...
Nigel Short
#28. Be the Person that You want to see in Others.
Jan Jansen
Jan Jansen
#29. 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
#30. And I always think of life like a giant wave. You know, it rises and it crests and it flies, and it's just magnificent, and then it crashes. And for a lot of people, when it crashes, that's the end, and they go down the deep, dark hole of depression.
Jane Seymour
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