Chess Quotes

Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.

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.

The world championship is a disputed title. You've got a situation like boxing. Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified.

Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth

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.

But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.

Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess.

The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.

The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game

Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players have castled on opposite sides.

An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!

No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me.

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money

The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master

The consumer game is tougher than pro football and more conniving than chess. One side [industry] invents the rules and the other side [consumers] is left to guess what they are.

For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.

When I was eleven, I just got good.

FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.

Let's play. I'm willing to play anywhere.

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess

Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.

With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.

I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of some sort.

I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.

There are no heroes in chess.

Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever

I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.

Regardless of Bobby's recent hate-filled rantings, which I abhor, he is nonetheless one of the greatest chessplayers of all time.

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.

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.

Chess is not dominoes

In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born in America.

I feel that my chess strengths are still here, .. I believe I can still improve.

All chess masters can play one game blindfolded.

There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

Chess is a curse upon a man.

...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.

The battle for the ultimate truth will never be won. And that's why chess is so fascinating.

Life's to short for chess.

After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game