Chess Quotes · Page 32

There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end.

— Garry Kasparov

Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long

— Emanuel Lasker

Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game

— Wilhelm Steinitz

When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.

— Boris Spassky

Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.

— Christian Morgenstern

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.

— Anne Bronte

Once there is the slightest suggestion of combinational possibilities on the board, look for unusual moves. Apart from making your play creative…

— Alexander Kotov

I like to say that Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever. But what made Fischer a genius was his ability to…

— Bruce Pandolfini

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just…

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and…

— Pal Benko

Political analysis is full of chess metaphors, reflecting an old tradition of seeing games as models of physical and social reality.

— Dominic Cummings

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method…

— Garry Kasparov

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on…

— Lubomir Kavalek

By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for…

— Anatoly Karpov

As with Steinitz, Fischer's genius has often been concealed by controversies away from the board. Like Lasker, Fischer has raised chess to…

— Andrew Soltis

Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's…

— John Szarkowski

A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without…

— Paul Keres

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and…

— Charles Dickens

My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with…

— Joshua Waitzkin

“The psychology of accurate intuition involves no magic. Perhaps the best short statement of it is by the great Herbert Simon, who…

— Daniel Kahneman

I learned very early on once I started boxing as a kid that if you go into the ring emotionally charged you…

— Chris Eubank Jr

If you can play the first ten or fifteen moves in just as many minutes, you can be in a state of…

— Alexander Kotov

To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player.

— David Bronstein

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

— Jeff Garlin

“For chess grand masters, the process of thinking during a match can "cost" up to 7000 calories a day”

— Beau Lotto

Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.

— Samuel Reshevsky

The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me.

— Kay Kay Menon

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one…

— Tobias Wolff

I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out…

— Jerry Spinelli

You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess,…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But…

— Boris Spassky

But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal…

— Anonymous

Never Be 'Proud' Nor 'Depressed' For What You Are And 'The Position' You Hold In Society. Remember, After The Game Of Chess,,,…

— Pacifiersucker

But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“I learned about opening moves and why it's important to control the center early on; the shortest distance between two points is…

— Amy Tan

I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If…

— Cecil Purdy