Chess Quotes · Page 29

“In life, as in chess, it is always better to analyze one's motives and intentions.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

I play football like chess. You have to think a lot and anticipate what could happen after you make your move.

— Henrikh Mkhitaryan

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

— Garry Kasparov

“The game of chess is like the game of life. You move, then wait patiently until the other person moves…mgc”

— Michael Gray Calvert

My computer just beat me at chess...but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

— Author Name

After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game

— Howard Staunton

The single most important thing in life is to believe in yourself regardless of what everyone else says.

— Hikaru Nakamura

Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it

— Bobby Fischer

The correct way to play chess is to develop each and every piece (chess is a team game!), get your King safely…

— Jeremy Silman

The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and…

— Peter Weiss

My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography…

— Anatoly Karpov

What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have…

— Warren Buffett

I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's…

— Garry Kasparov

By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that…

— Garry Kasparov

“She has gathered that the man in the grey suit whom her father called Alexander also has a student, and there will…

— Erin Morgenstern

A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising…

— G. H. Hardy

“I've been in prison, you see. Only three weeks, and only on remand,but when you've had to play chess twice a day…

— Hugh Laurie

The literary game is the abyss of human society itself: interactive, playful and tragic. We can't live alone. For me, Robinson [Crusoe]…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

Instead of critics reviewing my movies, now what they're really doing is trying to match wits with me. Every time they review…

— Quentin Tarantino

Often you will find the opposite situation. The author seems to have interesting ideas, but he is not able to illustrate them…

— Mark Dvoretsky

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But…

— Stanley Kubrick

I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless…

— Adolf Anderssen

Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of…

— Joshua Waitzkin

The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.

— Savielly Tartakower

Some studies make such a deep impression on you that they stay etched in your memory forever.

— Jan Timman

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

— Bobby Fischer

Chess demolishes differences. It's a language of different generations.

— Judit Polgar

I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.

— Anatoly Karpov

Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago

— Siegbert Tarrasch

I don't like politics especially in chess. All I want is promote chess 24/7.

— Susan Polgar

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

— Viktor Korchnoi

A considerable role in the forming of my style was played by an early attraction to study composition.

— Vasily Smyslov

I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

— Magnus Carlsen

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess

— Siegbert Tarrasch

All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.

— Viktor Korchnoi

No, playing online is an entirely different experience and classical chess events never happen online.

— Anish Giri

Chess isn't a game of speed, it is a game of speech through actions

— Matt Selman

When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.

— Oprah Winfrey

I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.

— Garry Kasparov