Chess Quotes · Page 22

I love the chess game that I do on 'Suits.' I just love every bit of it and that I get to…

— Gina Torres

I lay em down, tempur-pedic. This shits a game of chess, you niggas think it's cleavage.

— Lil Wayne

Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.

— Yasser Seirawan

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

— Alexander Kotov

“Sometimes we play Chess in the game of Life..Never sacrifice your QUEEN or KING...”

— Anonymous

Chess is a great training ground for poker players because it's a math-based game, much like backgammon is.

— Daniel Negreanu

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

— Marcel Duchamp

To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.

— Mikhail Tal

Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance…

— Jan Timman

“Chess teaches the Clausewitzian concepts of “center of gravity” and the “decisive point”—the game usually beginning as a struggle for the center…

— Henry Kissinger

The masters and grandmasters can be divided into three groups - the inveterate time trouble merchants, those who sometimes get into trouble,…

— Alexander Kotov

Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has…

— Simen Agdestein

The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary…

— Robert Shea

I like to say that Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever. But what made Fischer a genius was his ability to…

— Bruce Pandolfini

Once there is the slightest suggestion of combinational possibilities on the board, look for unusual moves. Apart from making your play creative…

— Alexander Kotov

There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and…

— Pal Benko

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

I grew up with a father who taught me chess at the age of 6 or 7. He'd always beat me. Of…

— Stephanie Corneliussen

“We can imagine that this complicated array of moving things which constitutes “the world” is something like a great chess game being…

— Richard Rhodes

I cannot think that a player genuinely loving the game can get pleasure just from the number of points scored no matter…

— Alexander Kotov

I remember being with a girlfriend who asked me to look over some chess openings with her. I instantly fell asleep. I…

— Pal Benko

How good is Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel anyway? ... to me, Daniel's brilliance has nothing to do with the big numbers he…

— Joe Posnanski

I soon realized that it is not enough for a master simply to analyse variations scrupulously just like an accountant. He must…

— Alexander Kotov

The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

It's very encouraging that the game of chess is growing in the U.S. and is becoming more popular.

— Hikaru Nakamura

The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic.

— Boris Gelfand

Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!

— Aron Nimzowitsch

We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!...

— Rumi

The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature

— Stanley Ellin

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

— David Hockney

It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to think up the moves himself

— Siegbert Tarrasch

If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.

— William McDonough

A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.

— Richard Reti

The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

— Bobby Fischer

I got arrested for playing chess in the street. I said, it's because I'm black, isn't it.

— Milton Jones

I always urge players to study composed problems and endgames.

— Pal Benko

I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.

— Mikhail Tal

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

— Lisa Kleypas