Chess Quotes

Checkers is for tramps

— Paul Morphy

Play as often as you can.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

I like to make them squirm.

— Bobby Fischer

Tennis is physical chess.

— Rita Mae Brown

Chess is not dominoes

— Garry Kasparov

Chess is mental torture.

— Garry Kasparov

Haste, the great enemy.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

I played like a child.

— Magnus Carlsen

There are no heroes in chess.

— Corry Evans

Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone

— Miguel Najdorf

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.

— Richard Reti

Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?

— Steven Wright

Win with grace, lose with dignity!

— Susan Polgar

Every move creates a weakness.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

“ some chess pieces are quite valuable ”

— Ashlee Nicole Bye

First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.

— Aron Nimzowitsch

“If u want to work in Corporate, then u should know how to play Chess.”

— honeya

“Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind.”

— Bobby Fischer

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

— Garry Kasparov

A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.

— Alexander Alekhine

I think for me the main goal that I have, or at least what I really aspire to, is to raise the…

— Hikaru Nakamura

An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.

— Paul Keres

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

— Nigel Short

“It was like playing checkers, only to learn that your opponent was playing chess all along.”

— Barry Lyga

While some are as loathe to trade a Bishop for a Knight as a Cadillac for a Chevrolet, others are prepared to…

— Larry Evans

Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have…

— Garry Kasparov

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

— Jorge Luis Borges

In the barber shop you start playing checkers, and eventually you want to learn how to play chess. The pieces look a…

— O. J. Mayo

19.Rxc7N. There comes the novetly! [sic] Actually, the impression I had is that both players had more or less analyzed the rest…

— Romain Edouard

Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little…

— Budd Schulberg

No One has ever won a Game of 'Chess' . By moving Forward Only . Sometimes U have to move . Backwards…

— Ritu Ghatourey

A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word,…

— Marcel Duchamp

I address these hopes to all young players. It seems to me that they often begin too early the strict life of…

— Sergei Shipov

In chess, you gotta come up with a strategy. I made a lot of plans in my life. 'I'ma do this, I'ma…

— Tee Grizzley

The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a…

— Alexander Kotov

“Do you play tennis, Senator?" "Now and then," he said with a ghost of a smile. He didn't add he'd lettered i…

— Nora Roberts

[Vladimir] Putin is more of a poker player. In poker, unlike chess, you can effectively compensate for a very weak hand by…

— Garry Kasparov

When humans team up with computers to play chess, the humans who do best are not necessarily the strongest players. They're the…

— Tyler Cowen

He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to…

— George Orwell

Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal,…

— Marcus du Sautoy