Chess Quotes

1355 Chess quotes by 411 unique authors

Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in. — Edmar Mednis
Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying the environment and… — Garry Kasparov
The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren't as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single, simple rule holds… — Garry Kasparov
Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before. — Garry Kasparov
Nervous energy is the ammunition we take into any mental battle. If you don't have enough of it, your concentration will fade. If you have… — Garry Kasparov
Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any… — Garry Kasparov
I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty poor players. I… — Harry Golombek
A great chess player always has a very good memory. — Leonid Shamkovich
I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I… — Mikhail Botvinnik
You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of… — Mikhail Botvinnik
A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring… — Oleg Romanishin
The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player. — Savielly Tartakower
I feel that everyone is good. In this way I give every game my best effort. The moment that you let up is the time… — Walter Browne
Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up… — Wilhelm Steinitz
A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and… — Garry Kasparov
Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head. — Magnus Carlsen
Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move. — Tony Robbins
A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves. — David Bronstein
I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais… — Adolf Anderssen
I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players. — Saffron Burrows
Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We don't know how… — Jen Hatmaker
We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to its… — Samuel Reshevsky
Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing. — Garry Kasparov
For me right now I think being the world number one is a bigger deal than being the world champion because I think it shows… — Magnus Carlsen
All I expect are wins and to get pleasure from the game. And if someone thinks something about me, if someone's dissatisfied with something... that's… — Magnus Carlsen

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