Chess Quote by Emanuel Lasker

If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.

— William McDonough

“The end of every game is an anti-climax. What you thought you would feel you don't feel, what you thought was so important isn't…

— Jeanette Winterson

It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the…

— Aron Nimzowitsch

'Endgame' resists narrative and even thematic explanation. How you play it has to reflect this. If you decide something too much in advance, you…

— Simon McBurney

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

— Dave Barry

“But a man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end…

— Fydor Dostoyevsky

I just continue to fall in love with the game.

— Charles Woodson

The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate…

— Richard Reti

“The crowd and its team had finally understood that in games, as in many things, the ending, the final score, is only part of…

— Thomas Boswell

“And-maybe it’s ridiculous to go on in this vein, although it doesn’t matter since no one’s ever going to see this—but does it make…

— Donna Tartt

“Give me a good game-day party on Sunday afternoon and I’ll show up, but knowing the intricate details about what was happening on the…

— Gilbert Klein

“She strove for poised composure, despite feeling like a powerless pawn in a despicable game of human chess, played for the amusement of those…

— Collette Cameron