Chess Quotes

Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles

For surely of all the drugs in the world, Chess must be the most permanently pleasurable

The best initial move for white is 1. P-K4.

When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age.

There was a time in my life when I almost thought I could never lose a single duel of chess.

Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part.

The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem

Chess is a sport. A violent sport.

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.

I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder

If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess.

The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.

All Chess players should have a hobby

The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.

I have frequently stated that I regard chess as an art form, where creativity prevails over other factors.

A considerable role in the forming of my style was played by an early attraction to study composition.

Chess is a matter of daily training.

Computers have changed the world of chess.

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.

In this respect, I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry [Kasparov]. With his very emotive body language at the [chess]board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.

Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.

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.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.

The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.

Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved.

There's no one alive I can't beat.

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

Different people feel differently about resigning

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.

Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality.

It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King's Gambit against a representative of the old chess guard.

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

Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.

The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.

It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the centre and, in addition, to the opening of a file for the rook.

Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'.

Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that computer superiority over humans in chess had always been just a matter of time.

Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth.