Chess Quotes

I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow.

Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.

Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!

Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived

Fischer wanted to give the Russians a taste of their own medicine

Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +-

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.

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury

Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer

A knight ending is really a pawn ending.

There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might have relegated him to a minor career.

Golf is the loneliest of games, not excluding postal chess.

A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.

Now I have the pawn and the compensation.

A game is always won through a mistake.

Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

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.

Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

Chess is one long regret.

Chess is a miniature version of life.

I have visited Tromsø and can personally say Tromsø is a beautiful city, well equipped to be an excellent choice for the Chess Olympiad 2014.

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

I think I can safely conclude that there is not a lot to be said for playing chess while on Valium.

Chess is most certainly not my life.

I would never suggest to anyone that they drop school for chess. First of all even if you can make it in chess, your social skills need to be developed there.

Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.

We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.

My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me.

Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess is supposed to be

Botvinnik was a killer in chess.

Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost.

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

Chess is life and every game is like a new life.

tennis is a 100-mph chess match.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.

My God, Bobby Fischer plays so simply

Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.

Chess is a game of bad moves.

Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.

The Russians have fixed world chess.

I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.

Chess reflects the real world in miniature. Endeavor, struggle, success, and defeat - they are part of each game ever played.

Even when the time control has been reached, there is one situation where you want to act as if it has not: when your position is absolutely lost.

The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis.

... though combinations are without number, the number of ideas are limited.

Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.