Chess Quotes · Page 28

Sarcasm is like a good game of chess. Most people dont know how to play chess

— Kendrick Cole

Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.

— Dan Heisman

The placing of the center pawns determines the 'topography' of a game of chess.

— Alexander Kotov

It is impossible to ignore a highly important factor of the chess struggle - psychology.

— Yuri Averbakh

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine

— Mikhail Tal

Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived

— Larry Evans

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

— Nigel Short

Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

— Bobby Fischer

Being a young parent, you can play cricket, football, and I can play chess with my son. In fact, he plays the…

— Ayushmann Khurrana

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the…

— Mark Twain

The problem is that nowadays, with so much information flying around, it is almost impossible to remember anything you saw just a…

— Peter Leko

I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.

— Paul Morphy

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

— Alexander Kotov

Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to…

— Viswanathan Anand

What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog…

— N.D. Wilson

The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were…

— William Ewart Napier

“Use art, be creative. No more war. No more children dying. A pawn that does not move in chess upsets the game.…

— Lorin Morgan-Richards

Kariakin-Shirov saw another theoretical battle in the 6...Bc5 Spanish, which has been one of the opening tabiyas of the event. [...] The…

— Steve Giddins

When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a…

— Ashot Nadanian

Remember that the machine is there to help you, because at the end of the day, you're not playing freestyle chess, advanced…

— Garry Kasparov

Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match…

— Carlos Castaneda

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

The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

“Wouldn’t you rather play chess, Ma’am?…It’s less destructive of clothes.”

— Rowena Cherry

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

— Wilhelm Steinitz

I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.

— Magnus Carlsen

“Cyber security like a game of chess, its main challenge not to win, but never surrender.”

— D.k

I stopped taking notes on my Palm Pilot and started playing the little chess game.

— Roger Ebert

Chess is not something that drives people mad; it is something that keeps mad people sane.

— William Hartston

He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.

— Warren G. Harding

For surely of all the drugs in the world, Chess must be the most permanently pleasurable

— Heinrich Fraenkel

Once a computer beat me at chess,but it was no match for me at kickboxing.stupid bitches

— Author Name

Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror

— Wilhelm Steinitz

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

— Eric Allin Cornell

Marriage is like a chess match is initiated and the board expands over time until it takes up all of a life.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.

— Bobby Fischer

It's easy to reach a certain level with chess, but it's very hard to reach the next level.

— Jan Vertonghen

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.

— Jose Raul Capablanca