Chess Quotes · Page 16

Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.

— Bobby Fischer

Drawn games are sometimes more scintillating than any conclusive contest.

— Savielly Tartakower

"When I am white I win because I am white. When I am black I win because I am Bogoljubov

— Efim Bogoljubov

Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess.

— Woody Allen

“In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won.”

— George Orwell

I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed

— Emanuel Lasker

Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty

— Dominic Lawson

If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off

— Nigel Short

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

— Eduard Gufeld

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my…

— Michael Birch

“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

“She has gathered that the man in the grey suit whom her father called Alexander also has a student, and there will…

— Erin Morgenstern

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

I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's…

— Garry Kasparov

Too many times, people don't try their best. They don't have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it…

— Bobby Fischer

My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came…

— Omar Dorsey

Even though chess isn't the toughest thing that computers will tackle for centuries, it stood as a handy symbol for human intelligence.…

— Steven Levy

Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready…

— Tim Lebbon

“Yeah, I lied and I shouldn’t have and it was lousy of me and I’m sorry. I never meant to hurt you,…

— Stacia Kane

It's the fault of the chess players themselves. I don't know what they used to be, but now they're not the most…

— Bobby Fischer

I was very competitive growing up. I can't even play chess anymore because I used to play tournament chess in school. There's…

— Chris Hardwick

No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess…

— Vasily Smyslov

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

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.

— Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.

— Mikhail Botvinnik

A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.

— Alexander Alekhine

“It was like playing checkers, only to learn that your opponent was playing chess all along.”

— Barry Lyga

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

— Nigel Short

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

— Paul Keres

I think for me the main goal that I have, or at least what I really aspire to, is to raise the…

— Hikaru Nakamura

“If u want to work in Corporate, then u should know how to play Chess.”

— honeya

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

— Garry Kasparov

“Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind.”

— Bobby Fischer

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

— Bobby Fischer

The battle for the ultimate truth will never be won. And that's why chess is so fascinating.

— Hans Kmoch

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

— Garry Kasparov

The pupil wants not so much to learn, as to learn how to learn.

— Samuel Boden

Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess.

— Siegbert Tarrasch