Chess Quotes · Page 27

“Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind.”

— Bobby Fischer

A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.

— Alexander Alekhine

“It was like playing checkers, only to learn that your opponent was playing chess all along.”

— Barry Lyga

An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.

— Paul Keres

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

— Nigel Short

I think for me the main goal that I have, or at least what I really aspire to, is to raise the…

— Hikaru Nakamura

Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty

— Dominic Lawson

If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off

— Nigel Short

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call…

— Thomas Huxley

What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from…

— Ryan Stiles

The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still…

— Vladimir Kramnik

If the kids get a good grasp of what the main lessons are for chess after two or three years of staying…

— Maurice Ashley

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of…

— Garry Kasparov

Jack White is an extraordinary person because he's like a three-dimensional chess player. He thinks so far ahead.

— Jimmy Page

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

... Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from…

— Garry Kasparov

I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many…

— Maeve Binchy

The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning…

— Israel Albert Horowitz

I love the competitive aspect of it [business]. It's like playing chess. Why do people play chess? Knowing the realm of moves?…

— Mark Cuban

... in itself the title of world champion does not give any significicant advantages, if it is not acknowledged by the entire…

— Emanuel Lasker

Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We…

— Jen Hatmaker

When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no…

— Viswanathan Anand

In chess you try to do your best, but there are instances where you make mistakes or you try and take risks…

— Hikaru Nakamura

I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not…

— Eve Babitz

All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.

— Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.

— Mikhail Botvinnik

Drawn games are sometimes more scintillating than any conclusive contest.

— Savielly Tartakower

Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess.

— Woody Allen

"When I am white I win because I am white. When I am black I win because I am Bogoljubov

— Efim Bogoljubov

I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed

— Emanuel Lasker

“In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won.”

— George Orwell

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

— Alexander Alekhine

In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.

— Aron Nimzowitsch

“I want to be an aggressive player;One who always find joy in every move.”

— Kenneth de Guzman

Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.

— Alexander Kotov

In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.

— Vasily Smyslov

A 10,000m race is like a chess game and you are watching, wondering what's going on and what's going to happen.

— Colin Jackson

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

— A. A. Milne

I'm used to litigating against incredibly competent, high-quality lawyers that are very good chess players.

— Michael Avenatti