Chess Quotes · Page 26

Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few

— Georg Kieninger

Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

... though combinations are without number, the number of ideas are limited.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket

— Richard Fenton

In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master.

— Vasily Smyslov

One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.

— David Bronstein

Im so terrible at Chess. The only way Ill ever get to say Checkmate is if I eat at a restaurant in…

— Azgraybebly Joslan

“If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing…

— Stanley Kubrick

Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when…

— Richard Reti

Playing black, I put great stake in the Ruy Lopez: I liked it, feel it, and understand it; in matches with Hjartarson…

— Anatoly Karpov

It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a…

— David Bronstein

I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in…

— Viswanathan Anand

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

— Hikaru Nakamura

My life story is very special. I was raised with a special family as both my parents are teachers. They decided before…

— Judit Polgar

Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.

— Mikhail Botvinnik

I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you.…

— Junior Seau

If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent…

— Aron Nimzowitsch

I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with…

— Alexander Alekhine

After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the…

— Alexander Kotov

Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later.…

— A. J. P. Taylor

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You…

— Jimmy Smits

I have also heard that GM Oscar Panno said that -whenever you have to make a rook move and both rooks are…

— Oscar Panno

No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

— Samuel Reshevsky

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

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

The pupil wants not so much to learn, as to learn how to learn.

— Samuel Boden

Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

— Bobby Fischer

The battle for the ultimate truth will never be won. And that's why chess is so fascinating.

— Hans Kmoch

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

— Garry Kasparov

“If u want to work in Corporate, then u should know how to play Chess.”

— honeya

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

— Garry Kasparov