Chess Quotes · Page 29

If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off

— Nigel Short

With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.

— Mikhail Botvinnik

A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.

— Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Drawn games are sometimes more scintillating than any conclusive contest.

— Savielly Tartakower

“In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won.”

— George Orwell

I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed

— Emanuel Lasker

"When I am white I win because I am white. When I am black I win because I am Bogoljubov

— Efim Bogoljubov

How well you play the game of life comes down to the sum of your choices. Whatever you decide, dont be the…

— Anonymous

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills…

— James Gleick

“The yellow-tied patzer had come for beauty, but Ljubo had come for truth. In chess, that means finding not just a good…

— Charles Krauthammer

“Then again, she had-through a bizarre combination of skill, dumb luck and incredible misfortune-managed to build up a file any Debunker would…

— Stacia Kane

One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls'…

— Scarlett Thomas

As a kid, chess was the first thing I studied in a structured way that helped me gain the discipline to study…

— Mark Spitz

In both games, you have to think fast. In chess you tend to know all the patterns already, just like in football.

— Edgar Davids

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour,…

— Emanuel Lasker

The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in…

— H. G. Wells

Some scientist needs to explain to spectators Einstein's relativity theory. Before his explanation, he says: 'I have to suffer a lot explaining…

— Vassily Ivanchuk

It feels a little silly to annotate a game in which I didn't make a single move on my own, just following…

— Jan Gustafsson

You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure…

— Benjamin Franklin

Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

“How gorgeous this chess set is.' Each piece was a delicate marble fantasy of medieval warfare. The paint had long ago worn…

— Eloisa James

A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history…

— Richard Reti

Firstly, there no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a…

— Neil Gaiman

Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess.

— Woody Allen

“If u want to work in Corporate, then u should know how to play Chess.”

— honeya

“Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind.”

— Bobby Fischer

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

— Garry Kasparov

A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.

— Alexander Alekhine

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

— Nigel Short

An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.

— Paul Keres

I think for me the main goal that I have, or at least what I really aspire to, is to raise the…

— Hikaru Nakamura

“It was like playing checkers, only to learn that your opponent was playing chess all along.”

— Barry Lyga

Life is a chess is about making right moves ...check mate

— Siphelele

“Life is a game of Chess...We move with every change...”

— Anonymous

“I'm playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers, that's why I always lose”

— Josh Stern

You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player.

— Marc Lowrance

I go over many games collections and pick up something from the style of each player.

— Mikhail Tal

In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody

— Paul Keres

The first essential for an attack is the will to attack.

— Savielly Tartakower