Chess Quotes · Page 31

Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.

— Maile Meloy

When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play.

— Vladimir Kramnik

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

— Isaac Asimov

If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.

— Lennox Lewis

If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

— Bobby Fischer

... My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory ...

— Alexander Kotov

Did I ever tell you you play a very irritating game of chess, Mr. Spock?

— James T Kirk

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

— Emo Philips

A real sacrifice involves a radical change in the character of a game which cannot be effected without foresight, fantasy, and the…

— Leonid Shamkovich

It will be cheering to know that many people are skillful chessplayers, though in many instances their brains, in a general way,…

— James Mortimer

I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of…

— Dallas Roberts

I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own…

— Alexander Alekhine

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only…

— Anonymous

What was great about Fischer is that when he became world champion is that chess was being covered everywhere. It was in…

— Hikaru Nakamura

I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half…

— Bobby Fischer

The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to…

— Vladimir Kramnik

By the mid-1990s the number of people with some experience of using computers was many orders of magnitude greater than in the…

— Igor Aleksander

We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition…

— Samuel Reshevsky

The proper timing of an attacking plan is a difficult matter which places great strain on a player's nerves. Mastery of this…

— Leonid Shamkovich

I'm a licensed private investigator and have been for quite a while. I'm a lone wolf, unmarried, getting middle-aged, and not rich.…

— Raymond Chandler

“The faculty of re-solution is possibly much invigorated by mathematical study, and especially by that highest branch of it which, unjustly, and…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these…

— Bent Larsen

“The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured…

— F.A. Hayek

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

— Garry Kasparov

Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

— Karl Kraus

They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.

— Bobby Fischer

Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression.

— Reuben Fine

I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.

— Bobby Fischer

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

— Benjamin Franklin

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

— H. G. Wells

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

— Nigel Short

In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game

— Samuel Boden

I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.

— Marcel Duchamp

You can't win the chess match if you don't have enough pieces.

— Stephon Marbury

Your only task in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame.

— Lajos Portisch

I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'

— Ricky Schroder

The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly

— Irving Chernev

A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.

— Garry Kasparov