Chess Quotes

It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men

Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.

But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the most marvellous wonders of our 20th century!

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

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

Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game.

An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.

What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game

I have always felt that Judit was a relatively slow starter, though she is extremely motivated, diligent, hard-working, and disciplined towards her goals in chess and in life.

I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write.

I don't know if people know this but I am pretty good at chess. I was always on the chess team at school when I was younger.

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.

Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them.

The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

Every move creates a weakness.

I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.

The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?

Drawn games are sometimes more scintillating than any conclusive contest.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan

My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

Some studies make such a deep impression on you that they stay etched in your memory forever.

I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says, 'A sound mind in a sound body'.

Let the perfectionist play postal.

Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player.

Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic

The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and pipe.

I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.

I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.

Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.

I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.

Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play one and the same opening system, even though it be rich in variations and nuances.

Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

My opponent left a glass of whisky 'en prise' and I took it 'en passant'.

My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian

Without error, there is no brilliancy.

Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

I believe that the best style is a universal one, tactical and positional at the same time.

Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.