Chess Quotes

1355 Chess quotes by 411 unique authors

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner. — Howard Staunton
What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And… — Ryan Stiles
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost. — Viktor Korchnoi
No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess. — Anatoly Karpov
Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew… — Peter Mayhew
I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting. — Boris Spassky
I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't… — Maurice Ashley
The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game. — Boris Spassky
Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its… — Alexander Alekhine
Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there… — Lars von Trier
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that. — Boris Spassky
I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision… — Garry Kasparov
Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess. — Viktor Korchnoi
Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time. — Solomon Burke
Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies. — Jamie Murphy
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant… — Douglass North
Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess. — Felix Frankfurter
Chess is not for timid souls. — Wilhelm Steinitz
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. — Mark Twain
Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot:… — Seneca the Younger
Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the… — Hermann Hesse
The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as novel and charms… — Willard Fiske
...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple. — Unknown Author
Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand proved that even… — Unknown Author
It feels a little silly to annotate a game in which I didn't make a single move on my own, just following my preparation all… — Unknown Author

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