Chess Quotes · Page 30

Which do I prefer? Sex or chess? It depends on the position.

— Boris Spassky

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

— David Hockney

It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.

— William McDonough

White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to think up the moves himself

— Siegbert Tarrasch

A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.

— Richard Reti

Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

— Bobby Fischer

The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their…

— George Bernard Shaw

The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind

— Emanuel Lasker

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both…

— John Fowles

The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.

— Garry Kasparov

The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that…

— Bobby Fischer

We don't really know how the game was invented, though there are suspicions. As soon as we discover the culprits, we'll let…

— Bruce Pandolfini

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in…

— Viswanathan Anand

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied…

— Yann Martel

“You may not see every single piece of the puzzle that creates your life -- you may not see every move the…

— Rachel Van Dyken

The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching…

— Emanuel Lasker

That which Steinitz gave to the theoretical aspect of the game when he was at his best is very remote to all…

— Alexander Alekhine

Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and…

— Garry Kasparov

His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution…

— Garry Kasparov

Steinitz was a thinker worthy of a seat in the halls of a university. A player, as the world believed he was,…

— Emanuel Lasker

“So aint you think just causen you in this car now means any damn thing. It aint. He pretending it do, he…

— Stacia Kane

I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.

— Mikhail Tal

I got arrested for playing chess in the street. I said, it's because I'm black, isn't it.

— Milton Jones

I always urge players to study composed problems and endgames.

— Pal Benko

Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere.

— Edmar Mednis

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

— Lisa Kleypas

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

— H. G. Wells

Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

— Bobby Fischer

I could think six shots ahead. It's no different to playing chess.

— Alex Higgins

I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like…

— Jenny Frost

Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.

— Mikhail Tal

The computer may beat me at chess, but it is no match for me when it comes to kickboxing.

— DaniAlla And Her BFF

Life is much interesting game than chess, u'll always lose by your own queen.

— Ritesh

I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.

— Garry Kasparov

The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.

— Viktor Korchnoi

You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position.

— Grigory Sanakoev

In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.

— Garry Kasparov