Chess Quotes · Page 25

“To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat

— Siegbert Tarrasch

I am the best player in the world and I am here to prove it

— Bobby Fischer

After white's reply to 1.e4 e5 with 2.f4 the game is in its last throes

— Howard Staunton

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.

— Thomas Huxley

A plan is made for a few moves only, not for the whole game.

— Reuben Fine

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

— Nicolas Chamfort

The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the…

— Emanuel Lasker

I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that…

— Nigel Short

Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

Tis action moves the world…[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board…

— Susanna Kearsley

Much time and money has gone into computer chess programs, and so far, no one's figured out how to crack the game,…

— Wells Tower

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to…

— Amy Tan

A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even…

— Arthur Dean

“If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being…

— Thomm Quackenbush

Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of…

— Oliver Sacks

It's very important not to put pressure on a child. Make sure that she/he feels that whatever happens it's not the end…

— Judit Polgar

Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to…

— Garry Kasparov

The chess world is obligated to organize a match between the champion of the world and the winner of this Carlsbad tournament…

— Aron Nimzowitsch

“In history and in evolution, progress is always a futile, Sisyphean struggle to stay in the same relative place by getting ever…

— Matt Ridley

I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11…

— Magnus Carlsen

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her…

— Kate Chopin

“The increase of knowledge has forced the thinker to specialise, with the result that there is nobody capable to deal with civilisation…

— Aleister Crowley

I'm used to litigating against incredibly competent, high-quality lawyers that are very good chess players.

— Michael Avenatti

A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position.

— Bent Larsen

I want to show how rich chess is and what kind of history it has, through culture, literature, and education.

— Judit Polgar

When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee.

— Israel Albert Horowitz

In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

— Garry Kasparov

I have always had a slight feeling of pity for man who has no knowledge of chess.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.

— Nigel Short

You may have the bishop pair but I have the ultimate advantage; I am the better player!

— John Adams

The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.

— Katherine Neville

Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

— Garry Kasparov

It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position

— Vladimir Kramnik

When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at.

— Dominic Lawson

Touch the pawns before your king with only infinite delicacy.

— Anthony Santasiere

To have a knight planted in your game at K6 is worse than a rusty nail in your knee.

— Efim Bogoljubov

A chess problem is simply an exercise in pure mathematics.

— G. H. Hardy

I have frequently stated that I regard chess as an art form, where creativity prevails over other factors.

— Vasily Smyslov