Chess Quotes · Page 30

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

— Trevanian

Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it

— Viswanathan Anand

I believe that the best style is a universal one, tactical and positional at the same time ...

— Susan Polgar

“Some guys live in worlds where pawns stay pawns. I'm one move from king.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event

— Anatoly Karpov

I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.

— Garry Kasparov

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

— Marcel Duchamp

When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic

— John van der Wiel

Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center,…

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Being one of the lucky ones I shouldn't be complaining, but for the chess world in general it would be good to…

— Anish Giri

“When she moves a chess piece on the board, it isn’t so she can win; it’s to move the game forward. She’s…

— Danielle Stewart

Chess has given me a lot more than I could ask for. I have been able to feel special, travel the world…

— Viswanathan Anand

The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in…

— Rubin Carter

Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are…

— Emanuel Lasker

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is…

— Magnus Carlsen

I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was…

— Siegbert Tarrasch

...chess is "a lot like football because you have to set up your offense and your defense, every once in a while…

— Priest Holmes

Just as the pianist practices the most complicated pieces to improve the technique of his fingers, so too a grandmaster must keep…

— Alexander Kotov

An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored,…

— Anonymous

Chess is a very positive way to exercise your mind. It makes you look at the whole picture...what are your options and…

— Barney Chavous

“Alienor glanced across at the girls who were still oblivious of their fate as they sat over their game of chess. They…

— Elizabeth Chadwick

The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding…

— Anatoly Karpov

Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for…

— Otto Weininger

Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.

— Garry Kasparov

Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every…

— Magnus Carlsen

It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.

— Alexander Kotov

Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players.

— Zicheng Hong

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

— Alexander Alekhine

There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.

— Mikhail Botvinnik

Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards.

— Jacob Aagaard

The decision taken in haste to prove you wrong as it has proven many times that the game of chess

— Mak_786

Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized...

— Emanuel Lasker

I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.

— Dennis Miller

“In chess there’s a saying: “Only the good players are lucky.”

— James Altucher

In a game of chess; the Queen protects the King. Every man needs a Good Women

— Sean Taylor

The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move

— David Bronstein

There was a time in my life when I almost thought I could never lose a single duel of chess.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.

— Anatoly Karpov

Chess is a great training ground for poker players because it's a math-based game, much like backgammon is.

— Daniel Negreanu