Chess Quotes

Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.

I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.

Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.

Like us as Black", beg the chess pieces," and you will anyway like us as White

There is luck in chess. My opponent was lucky that he was playing against an idiot.

Chess is and will always be a game of chance.

A chess tournament disguised as a circus.

While it is a cause for regret that Fischer did not continue to produce scintillating games, he perhaps had a greater impact on chess than any other twentieth century player

...the initial position is decisive Zugzwang.

Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

Why are most chess masters under 30?

Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result.

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.

Chess is a time game, it’s a game of patience. That pretty much defines how I run the ball.

The first essential for an attack is the will to attack.

It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.

I'll take my five positions per second any day, thank you

Chess is not something that drives people mad; it is something that keeps mad people sane.

Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.

The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game.

A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.

In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed.

What we need are lots of girls who aren't as good as us, who'll treat us with the proper respect and reverance.

Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.

In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.

It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.

Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few

Chess is not for the timid.

This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled by modern Lombards pensive chess.

Realize that the social media success equation isn't big moves on the chess board, it's little moves made every day that eventually add up to a major shift.

Tournament chess is not relaxing. It's stressful, even if you win.

When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic

I play my enemies like a game of chess

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.

Most innovative little board game since Chess.

People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.

Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst.

A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.

19.Rxc7N. There comes the novetly! [sic] Actually, the impression I had is that both players had more or less analyzed the rest of the game.

We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!

I have a quite feeling of pity for all those who don't know chess; almost like I am sorry for those who never learned to love. Chess, like love and music, has the ability of making people happy.

I don't like politics especially in chess. All I want is promote chess 24/7.

You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.

I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.