Chess Quotes

1355 Chess quotes by 411 unique authors

There are no hopeless positions; there are only inferior positions that can be saved. There are no drawn positions; there are only equal ones in… — Grigory Sanakoev
Well, well. IM (and correspondence GM) Douglas Bryson once told me that he almost never plays a game that flows smoothly from start to finish;… — Unknown Author
I have also heard that GM Oscar Panno said that -whenever you have to make a rook move and both rooks are available for said… — Unknown Author
Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when I reply, quite… — Richard Reti
The idea comes before the logical argument. — Gerald Abrahams
Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of cases had been… — Oliver Sacks
To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game. — Howard Staunton
I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov. — Lou Gerstner
When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at. — Dominic Lawson
Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite. — Yuri Razuvaev
As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot… — Bobby Fischer
Deux fous gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non! — Alexander Alekhine
Style, I've got no style. — Anatoly Karpov
Tal doesn't move the pieces by hand; he uses a magic wand. — Unknown Author
Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next. — Bobby Fischer
No fool can play chess, and only fools do. — Marc Lowrance
You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player. — Marc Lowrance
Once in a Moscow chess club I saw how two first-category players knocked pieces off the board as they were exchanged, so that the pieces… — Alexander Kotov
...the initial position is decisive Zugzwang. — Unknown Author
After white's reply to 1.e4 e5 with 2.f4 the game is in its last throes — Howard Staunton
Like us as Black", beg the chess pieces," and you will anyway like us as White — Unknown Author
The best initial move for white is 1. P-K4. — Irving Chernev
At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal… — Hermann Hesse
She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose… — Raymond Chandler
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the… — Eric Allin Cornell

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