Chess Quotes · Page 23

Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

— Siegbert Tarrasch

A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.

— Savielly Tartakower

I'll take my five positions per second any day, thank you

— Viswanathan Anand

A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player

— Bobby Fischer

“And he calls it playing? Like, whatever happened to chess? Or cards? Or tag?”

— Cherise Sinclair

Golf is the loneliest of games, not excluding postal chess.

— Peter Dobereiner

For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.

— Moses Mendelssohn

Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition. Mostly, I'm interested in doing real sports.

— John Skipper

Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden…

— Savielly Tartakower

Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces…

— John Rhys-Davies

Books on the openings abound; nor are works on the end game wanting; but those on the middle game can be counted…

— Harry Golombek

The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.

— Bobby Fischer

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized.…

— Marcel Duchamp

And his six pawns were scattered like the ships of the Armada that should have conquered England; the Lord blew, and they…

— Hans Kmoch

If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer…

— Mikhail Tal

The game of chess is a metaphor for life... it teaches you strategy and it teaches you the value of knowing where…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I love the game - and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they…

— Bobby Fischer

Being Jewish myself, I somehow didn't see the problem: who cares what a mentally ill (but strangely likable) individual says? If he…

— Jeremy Silman

“Chess lied to herself every day; it was just something she did, like taking her pills or making sure she had a…

— Stacia Kane

I get off on the interaction with people, and I love the chess of a movie and particularly - not only in…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes…

— Daniel Craig

I just love fighting. You lock me in there with another guy - that strategy, that game of chess - I'm in…

— Frank Mir

“I prefer to make my annotations 'hot on the heels', as it were, when the fortunes of battle, the worries, hopes and…

— Mikhail Tal

As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent

— Jose Raul Capablanca

In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

— Daniel Tammet

Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of…

— William Ewart Napier

Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician.

— Raymond Keene

People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.

— Bobby Fischer

My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.

— Magnus Carlsen

With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.

— Garry Kasparov

Life is like chess; if you don't make the move, you lose the game.

— Anonymous

I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses

— Ronald Gross

Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury

— Mig Greengard

Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing.

— Garry Kasparov

Life is difficult to understand, such as chess, any move you make affect the whole life.

— Anonymous

Life Is Like A Game Of Chess…The Game Stays The Same, The Players Change.

— Dee123

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

— Felix Frankfurter

Still Today I could not understand: What are the laws, Temple of Justice or a Game of Chess

— Mak_786