Chess Quotes

I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.

I don't know what I am going to play, so how can he know what I am going to play!

The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.

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?

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?

Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'.

To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player.

There just isn't enough televised Chess

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

I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.

Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.

Chess is a fathead and feudal game.

A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without giving him the satisfaction of a lover.

After white's reply to 1.e4 e5 with 2.f4 the game is in its last throes

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.

Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.

The correct way to play chess is to develop each and every piece (chess is a team game!), get your King safely castled, and only then begin more aggressive maneuvers.

Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.

The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.

Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.

Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone

It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.

Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess

For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

I always urge players to study composed problems and endgames.

In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.

Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.

Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression.

The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed according to the sacrifices it contains.

It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething with a kaleidoscope of emotions.

... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.

Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess.

I look one move ahead... the best!

Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago

White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?

I thought I was playing the world champion, not some 27-eyed monster who sees everything in all positions.

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.