Chess Quotes

1355 Chess quotes by 411 unique authors

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind. — Bobby Fischer
Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck. — Bobby Fischer
Chess is imagination. — David Bronstein
The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is. — David Bronstein
For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime. — Unknown Author
Chess is, above all, a fight. — Emanuel Lasker
By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be -… — Emanuel Lasker
A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the… — Emanuel Lasker
Chess is mental torture. — Garry Kasparov
Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact… — Garry Kasparov
For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young… — Garry Kasparov
Chess is a good mistress but a bad master. — Gerald Abrahams
Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for. — Hans Ree
Chess is a great game. No matter how good one is, there is always somebody better. No matter how bad one is, there is always… — Israel Albert Horowitz
Chess is not for the timid. — Irving Chernev
Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks. — Jennifer Shahade
Chess is not relaxing; it's stressful even if you win. — Jennifer Shahade
Chess is the touchstone of intellect. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Chess is a cure for headaches. — John Maynard Keynes
One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic… — Judit Polgar
Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic. — Mikhail Botvinnik
For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game. — Moses Mendelssohn
Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess. — William Ewart Napier
In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to… — Pal Benko
Chess is a test of wills. — Paul Keres

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