Chess Quotes · Page 23

Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere.

— Edmar Mednis

Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

— Bobby Fischer

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

— H. G. Wells

You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player.

— Marc Lowrance

“I'm playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers, that's why I always lose”

— Josh Stern

“Life is a game of Chess...We move with every change...”

— Anonymous

Life is a chess is about making right moves ...check mate

— Siphelele

I go over many games collections and pick up something from the style of each player.

— Mikhail Tal

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just…

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on…

— Lubomir Kavalek

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method…

— Garry Kasparov

Political analysis is full of chess metaphors, reflecting an old tradition of seeing games as models of physical and social reality.

— Dominic Cummings

I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out…

— Jerry Spinelli

By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for…

— Anatoly Karpov

One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one…

— Tobias Wolff

Al Sharpton is not important. He's nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game.

— Byron Allen

If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess…

— Denis Diderot

What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones…

— Ben Kingsley

Had I not played the Sicilian with Black I could have saved myself the trouble of studying for more than 20 years…

— Bent Larsen

Being a professional chess player is not very family-friendly and I am away quite often playing tournaments, sometimes for 12 days at…

— Judit Polgar

Since your mental state can have such dramatic effects on your body, obviously your physical condition can affect your mental well-being. It…

— Pal Benko

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and…

— Marcel Duchamp

Greg Kaidanov tried to get me to view his behavior as part of what makes him great - if he wouldn't get…

— Irina Krush

A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of…

— Garry Kasparov

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

— Boris Spassky

The first essential for an attack is the will to attack.

— Savielly Tartakower

In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody

— Paul Keres

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

— Nigel Short

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

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

— Kyle Korver

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

— Jose Raul Capablanca

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

— Bobby Fischer

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

— Garry Kasparov

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

— Ritesh

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

— Grigory Sanakoev