Chess Quotes · Page 26

That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one

— Bobby Fischer

Life is like playing chess with God. Your moves are called CHOICE and His moves are called CHALLENGES

— Anonymous

There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player

— Bobby Fischer

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

— Alexander Alekhine

Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

— Mikhail Botvinnik

Love is like a game of chess: One false move and you're mated.

— Anonymous

It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

— Alison Gopnik

“In their figurative game of chess, Anthony Rawlings had Claire in check. Every move she made, he countered.”

— Aleatha Romig

I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes…

— Garry Kasparov

The way you have to think in chess is good for everyday thinking, really, especially for brothers in the urban community who…

— Rza

He was the captain of the chess club and an A-plus student.” – Nick “Why would anyone think he’s a demon?” –…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at…

— Max Euwe

Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is…

— Pal Benko

If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the…

— Irving Chernev

Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the…

— Craig Brown

The main line of the Yugoslav Attack has become just too vast for most players to study in depth, and anyone intending…

— John Nunn

I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons…

— Steven Johnson

One thing with Garry, and I think it is due in a large part to his Soviet training, he'll never quite understand…

— Hikaru Nakamura

When Grand Masters play, they see the logic of their opponent's moves. One's moves may be so powerful that the other may…

— Mark Taimanov

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is…

— Anna Kendrick

I think it's very natural to get nervous. I've usually got concerns about a specific thing in the opening which might worry…

— Judit Polgar

The center of the chessboard is a magnet, which pulls to itself all the pieces. Therefore the most beautiful and amazing moves,…

— Ashot Nadanian

He is the so-called father of the modern school of chess; before him, the King was considered a weak piece and players…

— Bobby Fischer

I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying…

— Bobby Fischer

It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.

— Savielly Tartakower

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

— Vladimir Kramnik

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack

— Wilhelm Steinitz

Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost.

— Yuri Razuvaev

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

— Wendell Phillips

“It was like trying to make a move at chess when you were already mated.”

— George Orwell

My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.

— Garry Kasparov

Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth

— Yasser Seirawan

Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.

— Paul Keres

Fischer, who may or may not be mad as a hatter, has every right to be horrified

— Jeremy Silman

The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.

— Anatoly Karpov

The endgame is an arena in which miraculous escapes are not uncommon.

— Leonid Shamkovich

Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares

— Miguel Najdorf

There is luck in chess. My opponent was lucky that he was playing against an idiot.

— James M. Loy

“If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white.”

— Zenna Henderson