Chess Quotes · Page 19

I think chess players are not always what you think them to be. Or maybe it's our job to appear serious.

— Anish Giri

I think I can safely conclude that there is not a lot to be said for playing chess while on Valium.

— Tony Miles

Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.

— Viswanathan Anand

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

— Samuel Reshevsky

The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.

— Anatoly Karpov

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son

— John Turturro

My younger brother ended up the British chess champion 10 times, a record.

— Roger Penrose

I play chess, but my past is checkered, The mic and I are like staff and shepherd.

— Ka

“Who the hell let you animals into my office? I'll have you know I was playing a VERY unimportant game of chess…

— Matt Fraction

Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and…

— Tom Cruise

If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a…

— Viswanathan Anand

I think the draw quotient has always been high in world championship matches because the amount of effort people put into neutralizing…

— Viswanathan Anand

Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be…

— Levon Aronian

It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain…

— Efim Geller

Barcza is the most versatile player in the opening. He sometimes plays P-KKt3 on the first, sometimes on the second, sometimes on…

— Harry Golombek

“I have just spent the better part of a week sorting out the miasma of lunatic alibis known as your correspondence in…

— Woody Allen

One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

In our small chess community in Marylebone it would be mock modesty on my part to deny that I have built up…

— Stephen Potter

I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the…

— Maurice Ashley

The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on…

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

About the only time our gut can truly outperform our reason is if we truly have developed a kind of informed intuition.…

— Sheena Iyengar

Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the…

— Alexander Koblencs

I had been playing a lot of chess and I wasn't really enjoying it, so I decided to go to college to…

— Hikaru Nakamura

My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something,…

— Viswanathan Anand

Here in Italy, football is more like a chess game. You have to think about every move.

— Patrice Evra

“Life is like playing the game of chess against yourself, to win, you must beat the blacks of you.”

— Hassaan Ali

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

— Magnus Carlsen

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

— Al Leiter

“Deal me in. If they want to play checkers, we’ll play chess. Fuck them.”

— Dick Lehr

Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists

— Marcel Duchamp

The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

— Viktor Korchnoi

I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got…

— David Bailey

Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.

— Charles Barkley

How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I…

— Warren Buffett

“When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece...in order to win.”

— Lionel Suggs

If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.

— Mark Millar

Yes, I think I have some good knowledge of India. I have lots of Indian friends in the chess fraternity.

— Anish Giri

By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion

— Garry Kasparov

I think a player constantly improves his understanding of chess with experience.

— Yasser Seirawan

Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.

— Anonymous