Chess Quotes · Page 21

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

— Lennox Lewis

But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one.

— Fred Reinfeld

Online chess is very popular and cool, don't get me wrong, but it is a different discipline.

— Anish Giri

Life is a chess match. Every decision that you make has a consequence to it.

— P.K. Subban

I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.

— Anatoly Karpov

To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game

— Savielly Tartakower

You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer

— Andrew Soltis

I think there's a misconception that chess players are all total nerds. Well, I guess they are.

— Daniel Naroditsky

To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.

— Frederick Lenz

Morphy gained most of his wins by playing directly and simply, and it is simple and logical method that constitutes the true…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King…

— Ashot Nadanian

Playing chess has many aspects that can be useful in everyday situations like planning, concentration and combinations. You learn to win but…

— Judit Polgar

The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king,…

— Pal Benko

Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could…

— Max Euwe

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

— Kenneth Rogoff

For young players, their minds are not overloaded. I am 54 with four kids and I do many other things. Even if…

— Garry Kasparov

By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of…

— Benjamin Franklin

While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and…

— Emanuel Lasker

It is a game of chess with this city. We'll have to see how it is going to play out. The city…

— Bill Vaughan

For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of…

— Alexander Alekhine

Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your…

— Peter Abelard

“The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game.

— David Bronstein

The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.

— Emanuel Lasker

The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers.

— Bob Costas

The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

If you don't know what to do, find your worst Piece and look for a better Square.

— Gerard Schwarz

Life is like a game of chess, sometimes we have to move backward in order to get a better step forward.

— Vikrant Parsai

Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.

— Garry Kasparov

I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.

— Dawid Janowski

The number of 'unneccessary' errors that have been committed on move 41 are legion.

— Edmar Mednis

Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!

— Edmar Mednis

Never play for the win, never play for the draw, just play chess!

— Alexander Khalifman

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

— Richard Reti

Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.

— Alexander Kotov

“It might have begun a bit like a chess game, but it had taken on its own momentum, and owned both of…

— Julie Anne Long

I was still too weak to understand his chess ideas at that time but I remember being covered in smoke.

— Alexei Shirov

There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world

— Pierre Mac Orlan