Chess Quotes · Page 8

In Kansas I have a chess school

— Anatoly Karpov

Chess is not relaxing; it's stressful even if you win.

— Jennifer Shahade

A defeatist spirit must inevitably lead to disaster.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.

— Hans Ree

Good positions don't win games, good moves do

— Gerald Abrahams

The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

— Aron Nimzowitsch

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

— Bobby Fischer

Man, jiu-jitsu is such a chess match.

— Charles Oliveira

Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game

— Wilhelm Steinitz

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long

— Emanuel Lasker

Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end.

— Garry Kasparov

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

— Dave Barry

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me.

— Kay Kay Menon

Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.

— Samuel Reshevsky

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll…

— Al Leiter

When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be…

— Aristotle

Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken…

— Samuel Reshevsky

Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

I feel that anyone can become an IM (International Master) in two years, but he must study hard and play a great…

— Miguel Quinteros

The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster…

— Anatoly Karpov

We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.

— Viswanathan Anand

Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess…

— Garry Kasparov

“But is it not already an insult to call chess anything so narrow as a game? Is it not also a science,…

— Stefan Zweig

“To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fischer got to that elite level…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Women can do anything men can do. Except math, chess, running, jumping, lifting stuff, fixing things, making money, hockey, surfing, driving, making…

— Daniel Tosh

The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules,…

— Alexander Kotov

And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the…

— Ezra Pound

At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk - games I find far less addictive than the spectacular…

— Beau Willimon

First and foremost it is essential to understand the essence, the overall idea of any fashionable variation, and only then include it…

— Lev Polugaevsky

The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured…

— Adam Smith

Chess is not only knowledge and logic

— Alexander Alekhine

Chess is a game of bad moves.

— Andrew Soltis

Computers have changed the World of Chess.

— Vladimir Kramnik

...the initial position is decisive Zugzwang.

— Jon Speelman

Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all

— Bobby Fischer

Chess is a game of stimulation.

— Gza

Every Chess master was once a beginner

— Irving Chernev

All chess masters can play one game blindfolded.

— George Koltanowski