Chess Quotes · Page 30

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess…

— Alexander Morozevich

Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.

— Viswanathan Anand

Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.

— Aron Nimzowitsch

Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard

— Reuben Fine

In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.

— Viswanathan Anand

From time to time, like many other players, I glance through my own games of earlier years, and return to positions and…

— Efim Geller

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God,…

— Ray Manzarek

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Under no circumstances should you play fast if you have a winning position. Forget the clock, use all your time and make…

— Pal Benko

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty…

— Harry Golombek

Life is difficult to understand, such as chess, any move you make affect the whole life.

— Anonymous

“In chess, without the king, the other pieces would all be "dead", so their existance is supported by the king, but they…

— Roumen Bezergianov

Don't worry about your rating, work on your playing strength and your rating will follow.

— Dan Heisman

By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ...…

— Emanuel Lasker

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

— Dan Heisman

Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great…

— John Fowles

I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.

— Bobby Fischer

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

— Viktor Korchnoi

Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport.…

— Viswanathan Anand

All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the…

— Dorothy Dunnett

I still hope to kill Fischer

— Boris Spassky

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

— Magnus Carlsen