Chess Quotes

1355 quotes by 411 authors

Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...) — Martin Amis
I remember mentioning to friends back in 1938 that the world chess champion would be beaten by a computer in 50 years time. Today we… — Konrad Zuse
Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so… — Bobby Fischer
Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in… — Bobby Fischer
I love chess, and I didnt invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old… — Bobby Fischer
The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of… — Emanuel Lasker
Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole… — Emanuel Lasker
Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized... — Emanuel Lasker
In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess,… — Emanuel Lasker
Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight. — Emanuel Lasker
While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that… — Emanuel Lasker
Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research. — Wilhelm Steinitz
I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying to make chess… — Bobby Fischer
Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew… — Bobby Fischer
You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know. — Bobby Fischer
It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts. — Mikhail Botvinnik
AÂ form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one -… — Siegbert Tarrasch
Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy. — Siegbert Tarrasch
Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory. — Max Euwe
In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King and when… — Boris Spassky

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