Chess Quotes · Page 24

Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)

— Martin Amis

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

— Marcel Duchamp

Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals.

— Perry DeAngelis

Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player.

— Pal Benko

Chess is a great game. It's a lot of fun, but sometimes you wonder what else is out there.

— Hikaru Nakamura

Training in analysis (like any other form of chess training) should be treated very seriously.

— Mark Dvoretsky

Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists

— Mikhail Botvinnik

Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess.

— Vasily Smyslov

Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if…

— Garry Kasparov

Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art…

— Garry Kasparov

I don't think the computer will win the Booker, but no-one ever expected a computer to beat a chess grandmaster.

— Alastair Reynolds

I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess…

— Vikram Seth

To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on…

— Edmar Mednis

So chess is kind of this nice thing that I have no real aspiration for. It's just a frivolous thing I can…

— Michelle Zauner

Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to…

— Savielly Tartakower

Most chess books only sell a few thousand copies, and a book titled something like "Women in Chess" would sell even fewer.…

— Jennifer Shahade

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the people who really enjoy chess are the dubs and the duffers, experts who have…

— Alfred Kreymborg

No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess…

— Vasily Smyslov

As a journalist, I cannot help imagining with excitement a new era with a face-off between Hedi Slimane at YSL and Raf…

— Suzy Menkes

“Yeah, I lied and I shouldn’t have and it was lousy of me and I’m sorry. I never meant to hurt you,…

— Stacia Kane

It's the fault of the chess players themselves. I don't know what they used to be, but now they're not the most…

— Bobby Fischer

I was very competitive growing up. I can't even play chess anymore because I used to play tournament chess in school. There's…

— Chris Hardwick

Play the open variation of the Ruy is my advice to all ordinary club players, and I recently even wrote a book…

— Bent Larsen

“Life is a Game of Chess Between Me and God; Let the Best Player Win”

— Ashu Gaur

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.

— Samuel Reshevsky

Here in Italy, football is more like a chess game. You have to think about every move.

— Patrice Evra

My younger brother ended up the British chess champion 10 times, a record.

— Roger Penrose

I play chess, but my past is checkered, The mic and I are like staff and shepherd.

— Ka

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son

— John Turturro

The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.

— Anatoly Karpov

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

— Al Leiter

“Deal me in. If they want to play checkers, we’ll play chess. Fuck them.”

— Dick Lehr

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

— Magnus Carlsen

“Life is like playing the game of chess against yourself, to win, you must beat the blacks of you.”

— Hassaan Ali

“When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece...in order to win.”

— Lionel Suggs

How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I…

— Warren Buffett

Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.

— Charles Barkley

I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got…

— David Bailey

The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

— Viktor Korchnoi