Chess Quotes · Page 16

Life is like chess; if you don't make the move, you lose the game.

— Anonymous

With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.

— Garry Kasparov

My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.

— Magnus Carlsen

The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [...] Today's game was provided by Garry.

— Magnus Carlsen

When I have White, I win because I am white; When I have Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov

— Nikolay Bogolyubov

FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.

— Bobby Fischer

Still Today I could not understand: What are the laws, Temple of Justice or a Game of Chess

— Mak_786

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

— Felix Frankfurter

Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out…

— Magnus Carlsen

There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it,…

— Jeff Beck

(3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM...?' ... Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement…

— Raymond Keene

Love is like a man playing chees always afraid of losing her queen...but the queen is always willing to sacrifice herself just…

— Anonymous

A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess…

— Alexander Morozevich

Football and chess can seem like sporting polar opposites, but there are so many similarities with the modern game.

— Trent Alexander-Arnold

If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been…

— Anatoly Karpov

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

— Thomas Jefferson

Instead of critics reviewing my movies, now what they're really doing is trying to match wits with me. Every time they review…

— Quentin Tarantino

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But…

— Stanley Kubrick

Often you will find the opposite situation. The author seems to have interesting ideas, but he is not able to illustrate them…

— Mark Dvoretsky

I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless…

— Adolf Anderssen

I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was…

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of…

— Joshua Waitzkin

You can't overestimate the importance of psychology in chess, and as much as some players try to downplay it, I believe that…

— Garry Kasparov

All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure…

— Bent Larsen

Life Is Like A Game Of Chess…The Game Stays The Same, The Players Change.

— Dee123

Life is difficult to understand, such as chess, any move you make affect the whole life.

— Anonymous

Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition. Mostly, I'm interested in doing real sports.

— John Skipper

For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.

— Moses Mendelssohn

Golf is the loneliest of games, not excluding postal chess.

— Peter Dobereiner

“And he calls it playing? Like, whatever happened to chess? Or cards? Or tag?”

— Cherise Sinclair

People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.

— Bobby Fischer

Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician.

— Raymond Keene

Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of…

— William Ewart Napier

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

— Daniel Tammet

In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent

— Jose Raul Capablanca

The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.

— Rumi

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

— Garry Kasparov

What we need are lots of girls who aren't as good as us, who'll treat us with the proper respect and reverance.

— David Norwood

The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.

— Aron Nimzowitsch