Chess Quotes
Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work
As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine.
By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion
When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side
Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious than the absolutely correct one.
Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere.
Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns
The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.
A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.
The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.
The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.
In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.
In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him
Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.
Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out' the audience by playing exchanging variations?
In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.
Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess.
In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.
By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.
Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.
A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.
If the defender is forced to give up the center, then every possible attack follows almost of itself.
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.
When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its power.
Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.
When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war
I remember mentioning to friends back in 1938 that the world chess champion would be beaten by a computer in 50 years time. Today we know computers are not far from this goal.
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
I learnt an enormous amount, but there came a point where I found there was too much stress. It was no fun any more. Outside of the chessboard I avoid conflict, so I thought this wasn't worth it.
Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated.
Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.
In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated.