Chess Quotes · Page 21

Believe firmly that in chess there are no rules without exceptions.

— Reuben Fine

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

— Arnon Goldfinger

In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

— Emanuel Lasker

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

— Savielly Tartakower

The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

— Michelle Rodriguez

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

— Viktor Korchnoi

Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.

— Alexey Suetin

If we talk about pure abilities and skills, I believe there should be no reason why women cannot play as well as…

— Susan Polgar

In the current FIDE World Championship, on the knock-out system, weaker players have good chances. Those, who in a long match would…

— Vladimir Kramnik

When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age ...

— Jan Timman

“Relationships are chess for women," he said. "They can see the whole board, plan way ahead. They're the queens, after all. We're…

— Laura Lippman

Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.

— Garry Kasparov

Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverence and stamina are cultivated, and these…

— Lev Polugaevsky

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest…

— Albert Einstein

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it…

— Benjamin Franklin

You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him…

— Mark Lawrence

“By the turn of the twentieth century, every state in the South had laws on the books that disenfranchised blacks and discriminated…

— Michelle Alexander

Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a…

— David Bronstein

I used to play chess when I was a kid and participate in national-level tournaments with the geekiest guys. This one time,…

— Jordana Spiro

I was a coin collector.I didn't know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was…

— Adam Sandler

“He can see what move I'm planning to make in chess and counters before I can do it. He always knows who…

— Sangu Mandanna

[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such…

— Eve Babitz

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

— Max Euwe

I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them.

— Emo Philips

Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now

— Drake

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

— David Bronstein

Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.

— Viswanathan Anand

I think I can safely conclude that there is not a lot to be said for playing chess while on Valium.

— Tony Miles

I think chess players are not always what you think them to be. Or maybe it's our job to appear serious.

— Anish Giri

Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.

— Magnus Carlsen

I'd like to always be romantic in chess. Sadly, this doesn't always work like that.

— Mikhail Tal

The key to ultimate succcess is the determination to progress day by day.

— Edmar Mednis

Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Remy you're my king." I hug him hard. "There's no chess game for me without you.

— Katy Evans

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

— Solomon Burke

An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

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

— Tony Miles

The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

— Efim Bogoljubov