Chess Quotes

1355 quotes by 411 authors

Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills. — Susan Polgar
Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot… — A J P Taylor
The true sweetness of chess, if it can ever be called sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the… — H.G. Wells
Playing chess has many aspects that can be useful in everyday situations like planning, concentration and combinations. You learn to win but also to lose… — Judit Polgar
In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated. — Leonid Shamkovich
When Marx got into a difficult position he would get angry and losing a game would cause him to fly into a rage. — Unknown Author
We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into… — Omar Khayyam
My forte was the middlegame. I had a good feeling for the critical moments of the play. This undoubtedly compensated for my lack of opening… — Boris Spassky
If a chess statistician were to try and satisfy his curiousity over which stage of the game proved decisive in the majority of cases, he… — Alexander Kotov
Books on the openings abound; nor are works on the end game wanting; but those on the middle game can be counted on the fingers… — Harry Golombek
Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified… — James Gleick
Greg Kaidanov tried to get me to view his behavior as part of what makes him great - if he wouldn't get so upset about… — Unknown Author
There is no physical punishment in chess; suffering goes on inside the mind. You defend a bad position for hours, you suffer. You lose, you… — Lubomir Kavalek
Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something. — Dan Heisman
Win with grace, lose with dignity! — Susan Polgar
All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may… — Bent Larsen
Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won. — Bent Larsen
To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game. — David Bronstein
Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough to lose without… — Emanuel Lasker
Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy to recommend faith… — Fred Reinfeld

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