Chess Quotes · Page 18

“Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted…

— Kate Bernheimer

“If you sit down and think about it sensibly , you come up with some very funny ideas. Like: why make people…

— Neil Gaiman

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

— Howard Staunton

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

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

“The faculty of re-solution is possibly much invigorated by mathematical study, and especially by that highest branch of it which, unjustly, and…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I think a player constantly improves his understanding of chess with experience.

— Yasser Seirawan

And maybe some people do it too much, are too selfish and concentrated on chess. But I think that in all professions…

— Judit Polgar

Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and…

— Susan Polgar

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

— Al Leiter

Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

— Savielly Tartakower

I thought I was playing the world champion, not some 27-eyed monster who sees everything in all positions.

— Tony Miles

One thing with Garry, and I think it is due in a large part to his Soviet training, he'll never quite understand…

— Hikaru Nakamura

Most innovative little board game since Chess.

— Michael A. Stackpole

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

— Alexander Alekhine

However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.

— Paul Keres

To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification.

— Emanuel Lasker

I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed

— Emanuel Lasker

Little boys are still playing the game [baseball], more little girls are playing, and it is still the world's most interesting game,…

— Robert Lipsyte

Combination is a soul of chess.

— Alexander Alekhine

I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just…

— Forest Whitaker

When you trade, the key concern is not always the value of the pieces being exchanged, but what's left on the board.

— Dan Heisman

Style, I've got no style.

— Anatoly Karpov

During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca.

— Richard Reti

Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions…

— Alexander Kotov