Chess Quotes · Page 25

The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me.

— Kay Kay Menon

Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.

— Samuel Reshevsky

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end.

— Garry Kasparov

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

— Dave Barry

Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game

— Wilhelm Steinitz

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long

— Emanuel Lasker

I see myself used in terms of reading mismatches. If it's small, go inside. If it's big, come outside. And if it's…

— Thon Maker

Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality.

— David Bronstein

When men lose against me, they always have a headache ... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely…

— Susan Polgar

Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part.

— Leonid Shamkovich

This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled…

— Isaac Asimov

I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also…

— Vladimir Kramnik

Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.

— Andrew Soltis

I think death is the aesthetic part of chess, seeing your opponent's army fall. Producing a sacrifice in order to mate is…

— Daniel Naroditsky

You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you…

— Eve Babitz

The Possibilities in racing tactics are almost unlimited, as in a game of chess, for every move there is a counter, for…

— Franz Stampfl

I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest…

— Lance Henriksen

The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or…

— Norbert Wiener

Once upon a time supporters of the Steinitz-Tarrasch school had a very high opinion of a queen-side pawn majority. Modern strategy on…

— Alexander Kotov

There is no one 'best set-up', there are many - you can get to mate in endless ways. And - don't forget!…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

[Some of the people I'd met] were wonderful people as human beings, and some people were more difficult. I could not see…

— Matthieu Ricard

Because I have a passion for the play. My father was a chess teacher, and I learned the play of him as…

— Carmen Kass

When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.

— Boris Spassky

Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.

— Christian Morgenstern

Money, power respect, I took your bitch with finesse. Chickens jumping like checkers, but this game is chess.

— Rick Ross

As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.

— Mark Dvoretsky

In poker, you want to play the weaker guys. In chess, it's the opposite.

— Hikaru Nakamura

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

— Bobby Fischer

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot…

— Soren Kierkegaard

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

— Bobby Fischer

It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.

— Savielly Tartakower

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I…

— Magnus Carlsen

When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.

— David Bronstein

Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.

— Demian Maia

Tournament chess is not relaxing. It's stressful, even if you win.

— Jennifer Shahade

I barely know what my plans are for tomorrow, but I hope chess will remain a major part of my life.

— Anish Giri

If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.

— Alexandra Kosteniuk

Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.

— Garry Kasparov