Chess Quotes

1355 quotes by 411 authors

Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding… — Garry Kasparov
Your only task in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame. — Unknown Author
A defeatist spirit must inevitably lead to disaster. — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Chess960 is healthy and good for your chess. If you get into it and not just move the pieces to achieve known positions it really… — Levon Aronian
Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it… — Budd Schulberg
Football is like chess, only without the dice. — Unknown Author
Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting. — Trevanian
You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn… — Mark Lawrence
In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber. — Yuliya Snigir
Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know… — Eloisa James
Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts around… — Vladimir Putin
Realize that the social media success equation isn't big moves on the chess board, it's little moves made every day that eventually add up to… — Jay Baer
I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them. — Emo Philips
Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess. — Maile Meloy
To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player. — David Bronstein
On the whole, the life of a chess professional is not as easy as it appears at first sight. One needs to devote some ten… — Vladimir Kramnik
One thing with Garry, and I think it is due in a large part to his Soviet training, he'll never quite understand that you have… — Hikaru Nakamura
No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work… — Vasily Smyslov
Chess is and will always be a game of chance. — Jan Hein Donner
Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's… — Bai Juyi

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