Chess Quotes · Page 20

Chess isn't a game of speed, it is a game of speech through actions

— Matt Selman

When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic

— John van der Wiel

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

— Marcel Duchamp

I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.

— Garry Kasparov

I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event

— Anatoly Karpov

Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it

— Viswanathan Anand

“Some guys live in worlds where pawns stay pawns. I'm one move from king.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

I believe that the best style is a universal one, tactical and positional at the same time ...

— Susan Polgar

As a kid, chess was the first thing I studied in a structured way that helped me gain the discipline to study…

— Mark Spitz

One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls'…

— Scarlett Thomas

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour,…

— Emanuel Lasker

In both games, you have to think fast. In chess you tend to know all the patterns already, just like in football.

— Edgar Davids

The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind

— Emanuel Lasker

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their…

— George Bernard Shaw

The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.

— Garry Kasparov

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

Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of…

— Jonny Lee Miller

“Love was full of secrets. Love masked so many evils. Love controlled people, it lied to them, it made them believe things…

— Stacia Kane

“No, no, I just…you seem to be really good at this, is all.” “Do I?” She finished the marking and started sorting…

— Stacia Kane

It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh,…

— Lewis Carroll

Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure;…

— Northrop Frye

The queen was my favorite chess piece. Unlike the women I knew in real life, she was powerful. Her job was to…

— Rachel Vincent

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes…

— Howard Staunton

Many an expert says that there is a certain affinity between (Capablanca's style) and that of the world master, Lasker. There may…

— Jacques Mieses

The single most important thing in life is to believe in yourself regardless of what everyone else says.

— Hikaru Nakamura

Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it

— Bobby Fischer

The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.

— Savielly Tartakower

After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game

— Howard Staunton

My computer just beat me at chess...but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

— Author Name

“The game of chess is like the game of life. You move, then wait patiently until the other person moves…mgc”

— Michael Gray Calvert

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

— Viktor Korchnoi

A considerable role in the forming of my style was played by an early attraction to study composition.

— Vasily Smyslov

I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.

— Anatoly Karpov

Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago

— Siegbert Tarrasch

I don't like politics especially in chess. All I want is promote chess 24/7.

— Susan Polgar

Some studies make such a deep impression on you that they stay etched in your memory forever.

— Jan Timman

Chess demolishes differences. It's a language of different generations.

— Judit Polgar

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

— Bobby Fischer

I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.

— Bobby Fischer

Fischer wanted to give the Russians a taste of their own medicine

— Larry Evans