Chess Quotes

Checkers is for tramps

— Paul Morphy

Play as often as you can.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

Tennis is physical chess.

— Rita Mae Brown

I like to make them squirm.

— Bobby Fischer

Chess is not dominoes

— Garry Kasparov

Chess is mental torture.

— Garry Kasparov

Haste, the great enemy.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Life is a kind of chess.

— Benjamin Franklin

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.

— Richard Reti

Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone

— Miguel Najdorf

There are no heroes in chess.

— Corry Evans

Life is a lot like Chess...because I suck at that too.

— Anonymous

The best initial move for white is 1. P-K4.

— Irving Chernev

First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.

— Aron Nimzowitsch

“ some chess pieces are quite valuable ”

— Ashlee Nicole Bye

Every move creates a weakness.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

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

— Woody Allen

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

— Efim Bogoljubov

“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

Drawn games are sometimes more scintillating than any conclusive contest.

— Savielly Tartakower

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

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

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

— Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

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

— Mikhail Botvinnik

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art…

— Alexander Alekhine

Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill…

— William Ewart Napier

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is…

— Robert Benchley

I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of…

— Dallas Roberts

I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own…

— Alexander Alekhine

It will be cheering to know that many people are skillful chessplayers, though in many instances their brains, in a general way,…

— James Mortimer

Realize that the social media success equation isn't big moves on the chess board, it's little moves made every day that eventually…

— Jay Baer

Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers,…

— Garry Kasparov

Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars,…

— Hermann Hesse

For me, chess is at the same time a game, a sport, a science and an art. And perhaps even more than…

— Bent Larsen

I guess it's hard, being apart all the time." "It really is. If Lucas were still here, everything would be different." Vic's…

— Claudia Gray

The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of…

— Viswanathan Anand

“In chess we have the obligation to move; there is no option to skip a turn if you can’t identify a direction…

— Garry Kasparov

When I was growing up, I was as socially outcast as any nerd could possibly be. I was in the chess club,…

— Chris Hardwick

Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal,…

— Marcus du Sautoy