Chess Quotes · Page 61

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.

— Richard Reti

The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.

— Yasser Seirawan

One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and…

— Garry Kasparov

I love the competitive aspect of it [business]. It's like playing chess. Why do people play chess? Knowing the realm of moves?…

— Mark Cuban

I often play a move I know how to refute.

— Bent Larsen

Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

— Mikhail Botvinnik

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

— Bobby Fischer

I was lucky enough to attend schools where they were understanding about when I needed to go abroad to play chess. Of…

— Magnus Carlsen

No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

— Aron Nimzowitsch

In so-called communist Romania, chess was held in high esteem, even if our champions were weaker than the Soviets. This game, this…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position.

— Bent Larsen

An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.

— Paul Keres

I learnt an enormous amount, but there came a point where I found there was too much stress. It was no fun…

— Magnus Carlsen

I am the best player in the world and I am here to prove it

— Bobby Fischer

Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion…

— Alfred Binet

To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly…

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

— Isaac Asimov

I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess…

— Vikram Seth

For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in…

— Eduard Gufeld

Every month I look through some ten thousand games, so not as to miss any new ideas and trends.

— Vladimir Kramnik

I want to show how rich chess is and what kind of history it has, through culture, literature, and education.

— Judit Polgar

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both…

— John Fowles

The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the…

— Joseph Heller