Chess Quotes · Page 3

Chess is one long regret.

— Stephen Leacock

Chess taught me patience.

— Yuzvendra Chahal

Style, I've got no style.

— Anatoly Karpov

Attack! Always Attack!

— Adolf Anderssen

Chess is for everybody.

— Patrick Wolff

I hate anyone who beats me.

— Lisa Lane

All my games are real

— Bobby Fischer

Life's to short for chess.

— Henry James Byron

Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.

— G. H. Hardy

The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.

— Larry Evans

The future belongs to he who has the bishops.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

When you see a good move, look for a better one.

— Emanuel Lasker

“Even a pawn can take down a queen.”

— Chanda Hahn

I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.

— Jennifer Shahade

Chess is a sport. A violent sport.

— Marcel Duchamp

In blitz, the Knight is stronger than the Bishop

— Vlastimil Hort

“Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind.”

— Bobby Fischer

“If u want to work in Corporate, then u should know how to play Chess.”

— honeya

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

— Garry Kasparov

The battle for the ultimate truth will never be won. And that's why chess is so fascinating.

— Hans Kmoch

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

— Bobby Fischer

The pupil wants not so much to learn, as to learn how to learn.

— Samuel Boden

Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you're sharp, you can do it for as long as you want.

— Patrick Wolff

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only…

— Anonymous

“Wonderful. Now what was I doing, dear?' 'Playing chess with Bogdan.' 'Oh, good. He made me scrambled eggs. And he gave Ron…

— Richard Osman

A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word,…

— Marcel Duchamp

No One has ever won a Game of 'Chess' . By moving Forward Only . Sometimes U have to move . Backwards…

— Ritu Ghatourey

In the barber shop you start playing checkers, and eventually you want to learn how to play chess. The pieces look a…

— O. J. Mayo

Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little…

— Budd Schulberg

19.Rxc7N. There comes the novetly! [sic] Actually, the impression I had is that both players had more or less analyzed the rest…

— Romain Edouard

Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and…

— Bobby Fischer

A chess master can keep track of more choices than the number of stars in the galaxy within an instant, but these…

— Sheena Iyengar

...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner…

— G. E. M. Anscombe

If there were a 1:1 ratio of women and men in the chess world I would agree that all tournaments should be…

— Jennifer Shahade

The game of business used to be like football: size mattered. Then it changed to basketball: speed and agility. Today, business is…

— Adrian Slywotzky

I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father…

— Garry Kasparov

“Thinking more than a move ahead never got me anywhere in life. Only in chess. And even then it was sometimes a…

— Jennifer Dubois

Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities.…

— Anatoly Karpov