Chess Quotes · Page 28

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot…

— Soren Kierkegaard

It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.

— Savielly Tartakower

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

— Bobby Fischer

One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.

— David Bronstein

Im so terrible at Chess. The only way Ill ever get to say Checkmate is if I eat at a restaurant in…

— Azgraybebly Joslan

No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

— Samuel Reshevsky

... though combinations are without number, the number of ideas are limited.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by…

— Robert Browning

In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome…

— Garry Kasparov

Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the…

— Garry Kasparov

And maybe some people do it too much, are too selfish and concentrated on chess. But I think that in all professions…

— Judit Polgar

Strategically important points should be overprotected. If the pieces are so engaged, they get their regard in the fact that they will…

— Aron Nimzowitsch

Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion…

— Alfred Binet

The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity

— Vladimir Nabokov

Bobby Fischer started off each game with a great advantage: after the opening he had used less time than his opponent and…

— Edmar Mednis

Martial sex is kinda like ordering a Civil War chess set through the mail. You get one piece every four to six…

— Bill Engvall

I think most people are fascinated by chess for that reason. It's just these mystical shapes. It's almost like Harry Potteresque, like…

— Maurice Ashley

By playing slowly during the early phases of a game I am able to grasp the basic requirements of each position. Then,…

— Samuel Reshevsky

When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I'm very glad you asked me that, because,…

— Alexander Alekhine

Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or…

— Boyd Rice

My life is split in three parts; I don't know the percentage. One could be called "chess" - the Kasparov Chess Foundation,…

— Garry Kasparov

She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in…

— Bobby Fischer

A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket

— Richard Fenton

In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master.

— Vasily Smyslov

Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

The pupil wants not so much to learn, as to learn how to learn.

— Samuel Boden

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

— Bobby Fischer

The battle for the ultimate truth will never be won. And that's why chess is so fascinating.

— Hans Kmoch

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

— Garry Kasparov

Chess is eminently and emphatically the philospher's game.

— Paul Morphy

Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it

— Judit Polgar

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.

— Emanuel Lasker

I do hope in Ireland children in schools can experience the richness of chess and it's positive effects.

— Judit Polgar

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

— Boris Spassky

We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature

— Rudolf Spielmann

It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.

— Garry Kasparov

Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you're sharp, you can do it for as long as you want.

— Patrick Wolff

Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty

— Dominic Lawson