Chess Quotes

1355 Chess quotes by 411 unique authors

Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any… — Boyd Rice
When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its power. — Hans Ree
Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained in this game… — Lodewijk Prins
I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making… — Maurice Ashley
The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc. — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy. — Andrew Soltis
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have… — Anatol Rapoport
My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs. — Eric Allin Cornell
The pawn is the soul of chess. — Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a… — Norbert Wiener
The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development. — Alexander Kotov
The Possibilities in racing tactics are almost unlimited, as in a game of chess, for every move there is a counter, for every attack there… — Franz Stampfl
Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular. — Alexandra Kosteniuk
If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also. — Alexandra Kosteniuk
It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly. — Alexandra Kosteniuk
My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he… — Alexandra Kosteniuk
The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation. — Reuben Fine
Chess is similar to boxing. You need to develop a strategy, and you need to think two or three steps ahead about what your opponent… — Vitali Klitschko
How good is Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel anyway? ... to me, Daniel's brilliance has nothing to do with the big numbers he puts up more… — Joe Posnanski
The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than… — Joshua Waitzkin
When you ride your bike, you're working your legs, but your mind is on a treadmill. When you play chess, your mind is clicking along,… — Pat Ament
Life's to short for chess. — Henry James Byron
I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now… — Boris Spassky
Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few pieces. The elements… — Yann Martel
All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called… — Robert Browning

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