Chess Quotes

When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at.

Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of a wink, a self-portrait and not much more.

Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.

Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory.

A defeatist spirit must inevitably lead to disaster.

It has been stated that a characteristic mark of a combination is surprise; surprise for the defender, not for the assailant, since otherwise the combination will probably be unsound.

But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one.

To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.

A chess problem is simply an exercise in pure mathematics.

Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.

Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.

Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.

You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

My opponent is Short and the match will be short.

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.

Perfectly correct chess exists only in theory.

There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end.

Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.

I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.

The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.

With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.

At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.

Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess

There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.

The idea comes before the logical argument.

In chess there is a world of intellectual values.

You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position.

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.

Barcza is the most versatile player in the opening. He sometimes plays P-KKt3 on the first, sometimes on the second, sometimes on the third, and sometimes only on the fourth move.

And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents do not have any moments of human weakness!

Chess is not a game, but a disease.

Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.

Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.

I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss.

I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.

To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.

When you see a good move, sit on your hands and find a better one.

Chess is a cold bath for the mind

Remy you're my king." I hug him hard. "There's no chess game for me without you.

In the Soviet Union, for instance, the pressure on the chess stars was immense. When Boris Spassky came home after losing that match, he found he no longer had an apartment in Moscow.

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame.

I played like a child!

I do not know to whom the aphorism 'There are no sound studies, only ones that haven't been busted yet' belongs, but it has measure of truth in it.

If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.

As a kid, chess was the first thing I studied in a structured way that helped me gain the discipline to study medicine and become successful doctor.