Chess Quotes

1355 Chess quotes by 411 unique authors

Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp. — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly repeated by amateurs… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess. — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Haste, the great enemy. — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes. — Garry Kasparov
Attackers may sometimes regret bad moves, but it is much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by. — Garry Kasparov
When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee. — Israel Albert Horowitz
Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as… — Mikhail Tal
Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous tension,… — Pal Benko
Typically, in the last round of open tournaments the level of play is markedly lower, the number of blunders higher. — Pal Benko
My favourite victory is when it is not even clear where my opponent made a mistake. — Peter Leko
In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness. — Savielly Tartakower
As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake… — Viktor Korchnoi
It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such last rounds, in… — Viktor Korchnoi
Has he some psychological antipathy to realism? I am no psychologist, and cannot say. The fact remains that Euwe commits the most inexplicable mistakes in… — Hans Kmoch
Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments. — David Bronstein
No pawn exchanges, no file-opening, no attack. — Aron Nimzowitsch
The placing of the center pawns determines the 'topography' of a game of chess. — Alexander Kotov
Once upon a time supporters of the Steinitz-Tarrasch school had a very high opinion of a queen-side pawn majority. Modern strategy on the other hand… — Alexander Kotov
I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play. — Anatoly Karpov
I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4. — Anatoly Karpov
A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune. — Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the centre and, in… — Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and… — Boris Spassky
It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological… — David Bronstein

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