Chess Quotes · Page 26

I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder

— Miguel Najdorf

For me, learning chess was natural; with my sisters around me, I wanted to play.

— Judit Polgar

Wars of small kingdoms and forgotten lands, what do chessmen dream of in the dark?

— Keri Hulme

Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.

— Alexander Alekhine

Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately.

— Mark Dvoretsky

Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something

— Bobby Fischer

Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess

— Mikhail Botvinnik

Nowadays, a 13-year-old would probably know more than Bobby Fischer knew when he retired. They analyse all the moves and prepare themselves…

— Garry Kasparov

Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development.

— Alexey Suetin

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a…

— William Golding

In chess, everyone's accepted. That's what's great about it. You can be a little bit different. You can be an oddball.

— Hikaru Nakamura

Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess

— George Koltanowski

“Life is short, precious, and should not be wasted. Everyone has a chance at it. We’re equals after all. There are no…

— Cristelle Comby

If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

In chess, you have to bring all the pieces into the game. It is about development. In writing, you have to develop…

— Gza

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

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 learned very early on once I started boxing as a kid that if you go into the ring emotionally charged you…

— Chris Eubank Jr

“The psychology of accurate intuition involves no magic. Perhaps the best short statement of it is by the great Herbert Simon, who…

— Daniel Kahneman

Life is like a game of chess. It's long, boring and I don't really know what I'm doing...

— Anonymous

For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.

— Viswanathan Anand

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

— Vladimir Kramnik

When you're 17 and 18 is when you get really good, and in college, you have to put the chess aside.

— Hikaru Nakamura

There is nothing like chess to keep the brain smart, and give it a workout.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.

— Edmar Mednis

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

— E. M. Forster

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

“Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.”

— Bobby Fischer

I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.

— Albert Einstein

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

— Bobby Fischer

When I am White, I win because I am White. When I am Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov.

— Efim Bogoljubov

During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk

— Alexander Alekhine

Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

— Boris Spassky