Chess Quotes · Page 31

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

— Nigel Short

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

— Garry Kasparov

I always think when it comes to something athletic or intellectual, like chess-matchwise, I can hold my own.

— Matt Mitrione

In order to improve your game, you must study the Endgame before everything else.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.

— Kyle Korver

My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration

— Bobby Fischer

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead

— Isaac Kashdan

It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething…

— Shankarananda

“His hands on the sides of her face, on her neck, holding her there. "Chessie...shit, Chessie, I love you so bad." His…

— Stacia Kane

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance…

— Jan Timman

Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has…

— Simen Agdestein

“Chess teaches the Clausewitzian concepts of “center of gravity” and the “decisive point”—the game usually beginning as a struggle for the center…

— Henry Kissinger

The masters and grandmasters can be divided into three groups - the inveterate time trouble merchants, those who sometimes get into trouble,…

— Alexander Kotov

The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary…

— Robert Shea

I would say, you have a unique chance of learning more about the game of chess with your computer than Bobby Fischer,…

— Garry Kasparov

Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained…

— Lodewijk Prins

I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I…

— Steve Carell

The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what…

— Martin Rees

The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of…

— David Brooks

Politics in Iran is not played like American football. It's played like chess. There are multiple moves. You're jumping ahead. And a…

— Gary Sick

But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true,…

— Bobby Fischer

Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something…

— Stanley Kubrick

Often, in the Ruy Lopez, one must be patient, wait and carry on a lengthy and wearisome struggle.

— Boris Spassky

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

— William Hazlitt

Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.

— Jacques Barzun

No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

— Anatoly Karpov

Like us as Black", beg the chess pieces," and you will anyway like us as White

— Isaac Boleslavsky

A lot of people see a future where you could make a living as a chess player.

— Hikaru Nakamura

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

— Henry Thomas Buckle

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done…

— Mark Twain

It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles

— Garry Kasparov

The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard

— Aron Nimzowitsch

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

— Charles Dudley Warner

Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal.

— Irving Chernev

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.

— Howard Staunton

My opponent left a glass of whisky 'en prise' and I took it 'en passant'.

— Joseph Henry Blackburne

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

— Dave Barry