Chess Quotes · Page 17

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

— Boris Spassky

Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you're sharp, you can do it for as long as you want.

— Patrick Wolff

It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.

— Garry Kasparov

We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature

— Rudolf Spielmann

Chess is eminently and emphatically the philospher's game.

— Paul Morphy

Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it

— Judit Polgar

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.

— Emanuel Lasker

I do hope in Ireland children in schools can experience the richness of chess and it's positive effects.

— Judit Polgar

By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that…

— Garry Kasparov

My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography…

— Anatoly Karpov

What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have…

— Warren Buffett

The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and…

— Peter Weiss

The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were…

— William Ewart Napier

The correct way to play chess is to develop each and every piece (chess is a team game!), get your King safely…

— Jeremy Silman

Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane…

— Mark Waters

As a journalist, I cannot help imagining with excitement a new era with a face-off between Hedi Slimane at YSL and Raf…

— Suzy Menkes

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the people who really enjoy chess are the dubs and the duffers, experts who have…

— Alfred Kreymborg

Malina looked incredulous. "Are you anything more than a Druid?" "Of course I am. I own this shop and I play a…

— Kevin Hearne

Most chess books only sell a few thousand copies, and a book titled something like "Women in Chess" would sell even fewer.…

— Jennifer Shahade

It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual…

— Richard Reti

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's…

— Steve Sabol

I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just…

— Forest Whitaker

Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social…

— Dustin Diamond

Life is much interesting game than chess, u'll always lose by your own queen.

— Ritesh

I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.

— Garry Kasparov

You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position.

— Grigory Sanakoev

The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.

— Viktor Korchnoi

In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.

— Garry Kasparov

I could think six shots ahead. It's no different to playing chess.

— Alex Higgins

I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like…

— Jenny Frost

The computer may beat me at chess, but it is no match for me when it comes to kickboxing.

— DaniAlla And Her BFF

Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.

— Mikhail Tal

I always think when it comes to something athletic or intellectual, like chess-matchwise, I can hold my own.

— Matt Mitrione

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

— Garry Kasparov

In order to improve your game, you must study the Endgame before everything else.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.

— Kyle Korver

My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration

— Bobby Fischer

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

— Nigel Short

Which do I prefer? Sex or chess? It depends on the position.

— Boris Spassky