Chess Quotes · Page 15

It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

— Alison Gopnik

Love is like a game of chess: One false move and you're mated.

— Anonymous

Im so terrible at Chess. The only way Ill ever get to say Checkmate is if I eat at a restaurant in…

— Azgraybebly Joslan

No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

— Samuel Reshevsky

One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.

— David Bronstein

In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master.

— Vasily Smyslov

... though combinations are without number, the number of ideas are limited.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

The problem is that nowadays, with so much information flying around, it is almost impossible to remember anything you saw just a…

— Peter Leko

Being a young parent, you can play cricket, football, and I can play chess with my son. In fact, he plays the…

— Ayushmann Khurrana

There's never before been a Chess player with such a thorough knowledge of the intricacies of the game and such an absolutely…

— Lisa Lane

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the…

— Mark Twain

“...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present. JOURNALIST. And your plans. PLAYER. To play!”

— Mikhail Tal

I play chess with the computer when I feel dull in my mind and after two games - 'out or win', I…

— Ronnie Screwvala

I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally…

— Emanuel Lasker

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step…

— Anonymous

Rating systems work perfectly for players who play only in round robin closed events. I think most of them are overrated. Organizers…

— Alexander Khalifman

When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I…

— Viswanathan Anand

Every film, obviously, everyone starts out aiming at making it good, and in the end, filmmaking is really fragile. Making a film…

— Jeremy Davies

I think being a DJ is that thing of learning what makes a crowd move. As a DJ, you're constantly learning. It's…

— Alexis Taylor

The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with…

— Jorge Luis Borges

All experiments that are related to the games when you have humans versus machines in the games - whether it's chess or…

— Garry Kasparov

The study of combinations should enrich the analytical spirit of studious amateurs. Thereafter the most gifted among them will be able to…

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Sometimes it happens that the computer's assessment is very abstract. It's correct, but it's not useful for a practical game. You have…

— Vassily Ivanchuk

A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket

— Richard Fenton

If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.

— Garry Kasparov

Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few

— Georg Kieninger

Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I…

— Magnus Carlsen

When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.

— David Bronstein

Tournament chess is not relaxing. It's stressful, even if you win.

— Jennifer Shahade

Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.

— Demian Maia

I barely know what my plans are for tomorrow, but I hope chess will remain a major part of my life.

— Anish Giri

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot…

— Soren Kierkegaard

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

— Bobby Fischer

It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.

— Savielly Tartakower

Money, power respect, I took your bitch with finesse. Chickens jumping like checkers, but this game is chess.

— Rick Ross

As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.

— Mark Dvoretsky

In poker, you want to play the weaker guys. In chess, it's the opposite.

— Hikaru Nakamura