Chess Quotes

Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost.

I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Believe firmly that in chess there are no rules without exceptions.

Chess is not for timid souls.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game.

Combination is a soul of chess.

I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.

The future belongs to he who has the bishops.

Football is like chess, only without the dice.

Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.

Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.

He who analyses blitz is stupid.

Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.

I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

Well, you know, in America everybody is interested in making the dollar fast. In Yugoslavia no matter how much you hustle you're not going to get rich, so you might as well play chess.

Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing.

It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.

The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [...] Today's game was provided by Garry.

A plan is made for a few moves only, not for the whole game.

There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess

No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when I reply, quite truthfully, 'as a rule not a single one'

A great chess player always has a very good memory.

Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.

In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master.

In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth

According to research, test scores improved by 17.3% for students regularly engaged in chess classes, compared with only 4.6% for children participating in other forms of enriched activities.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely.

Not winning a tournament is not an option for me, unless it's no longer theoretically possible - then of course winning becomes impossible. But up to that point, not winning is just not an option.

Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares

I often play a move I know how to refute.

The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

No fool can play chess, and only fools do.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.