Chess Quotes

1355 Chess quotes by 411 unique authors

"Chess has definitely helped me understand a lot of the strategy of football. In chess, good offense is often an exercise in putting multiple points… — Unknown Author
Chess is a very positive way to exercise your mind. It makes you look at the whole picture...what are your options and what is the… — Unknown Author
The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days. — Rubin Carter
We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions. — Thomas Jefferson
Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts. — A A Milne
Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly… — Henry Fielding
Results show that just one year of chess tuition will improve a student's learning abilities, concentration, application, sense of logic, self-discipline, respect, behavior and the… — Garry Kasparov
I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because… — Vladimir Kramnik
Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess. — Woody Allen
A chess problem is an exercise in pure mathematics. — G. H. Hardy
But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see as much of… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and God endows it… — Peter Weiss
You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but… — Benjamin Franklin
Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium. Those… — Peter Abelard
The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions. — Emanuel Lasker
The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others. — Emanuel Lasker
Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as… — Emanuel Lasker
Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of… — Alexander Alekhine
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. — Alexander Alekhine
Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all. — Max Euwe
Capablanca's phenomenal move-searching algorithm in those early years, when he possessed a wonderful ability for calculating variations very rapidly, made him invincible. — Mikhail Botvinnik
Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely… — Mikhail Botvinnik
Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all. — Mikhail Botvinnik
When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete… — Mikhail Botvinnik
In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master. — Vasily Smyslov

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