Chess Quotes · Page 22

Blessed be the memory of him who gave the world this immortal game

— Alfred George Gardiner

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

— H. G. Wells

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

— Benjamin Franklin

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

— Nigel Short

I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.

— Marcel Duchamp

In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game

— Samuel Boden

You can't win the chess match if you don't have enough pieces.

— Stephon Marbury

Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression.

— Reuben Fine

The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express…

— Marcel Duchamp

Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful,…

— Mikhail Tal

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for…

— Edgar Allan Poe

It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not…

— Viswanathan Anand

It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning…

— Samuel Reshevsky

In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already,…

— Jaan Tallinn

When I was born, I lived with my dad for two years. I was always watching him on a tennis court as…

— Redfoo

Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.

— William Hartston

The Indians and Chinese have become brilliant chess professionals. They get on a plane and play all over the world. This has…

— Kenneth Rogoff

The best tournament that I have ever played in was in 1950. It was great - a waiter came to you during…

— Boris Spassky

“And are we not guilty of offensive disparagement in calling chess a game? Is it not also a science and an art,…

— Stefan Zweig

“Just like anything, don't rush a good thing. Enjoy it. Just like in a game of chess, all of the pieces serve…

— Machel Shull

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French…

— Raymond Chandler

Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn't seem to have enough respect for me,…

— Bobby Fischer

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself…

— William Hazlitt

I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.

— Bobby Fischer

A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'

— Ricky Schroder

Your only task in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame.

— Lajos Portisch

The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly

— Irving Chernev

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.

— Miguel Najdorf

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

— Aron Nimzowitsch

I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

— Emanuel Lasker

A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!

— Bent Larsen

I hope 'Chess' will hit the big screen. It seems a natural to me. Good venues, tunes, and politics.

— Tim Rice

The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.

— Aron Nimzowitsch

What we need are lots of girls who aren't as good as us, who'll treat us with the proper respect and reverance.

— David Norwood

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

— Garry Kasparov

The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.

— Rumi

It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.

— Anatoly Karpov