Chess Quotes
Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board
I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.
The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession
He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.
My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration
The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.
I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.
A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!
The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing
One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.
Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.
Strategically important points should be overprotected. If the pieces are so engaged, they get their regard in the fact that they will then find themselves well posted in every respect.
The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.
Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.
Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.
However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.
Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player
Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.
Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way.
That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.
Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the ties which link Chess with the human soul
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.
