Chess Quotes

1355 Chess quotes by 411 unique authors

One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one could live in… — Tobias Wolff
The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on the surface of… — Arpad Elo
The fact that the 7 hours time control allows us to play a great deep game is not of great importance for mass-media. — Alexei Shirov
I already came upon the world as a extraordinary human being; to my parents' great horror, I was equipped with a clubfoot which, however, did… — Siegbert Tarrasch
Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against his will, whose notion of Beauty always differs from yours and whose means (strength, imagination, technique) are often too… — Alexander Alekhine
I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book. — Jose Raul Capablanca
And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents… — Unknown Author
They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions. — Bobby Fischer
With a name like that, he must be Catholic, right? — Burt Hochberg
And his six pawns were scattered like the ships of the Armada that should have conquered England; the Lord blew, and they were all isolated. — Hans Kmoch
A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if... What if for me The Variation is not dead? If… — Lev Polugaevsky
Chess is not dominoes — Garry Kasparov
I thought I was playing the world champion, not some 27-eyed monster who sees everything in all positions. — Unknown Author
You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position. — Grigory Sanakoev
I'll take my five positions per second any day, thank you — Viswanathan Anand
A game is always won through a mistake. — Savielly Tartakower
Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +- — Mark Dvoretsky
I don't know what I am going to play, so how can he know what I am going to play! — Unknown Author
Never copy yourself, always copy someone else. — Pablo Picasso
Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards. — Unknown Author
I was still too weak to understand his chess ideas at that time but I remember being covered in smoke. — Alexei Shirov
All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game. — Viktor Korchnoi
Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative. — Christian Morgenstern
Chess holds deep wisdoms of the people. It is truly an image of life, the reflection of human fate that has shown us the earthly… — Pope John Paul II
Perfectly correct chess exists only in theory. — Garry Kasparov

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