Bad luck Quote by Savielly Tartakower

There is luck in chess. My opponent was lucky that he was playing against an idiot.

— James M. Loy

A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake…

— Leo Tolstoy

Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Chess is a game of bad moves.

— Andrew Soltis

What would Chess be without silly mistakes?

— Kurt Richter

Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.

— Garry Kasparov

The more you attack, the more your opponent will make mistakes.

— Marcelo Garcia

A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without necessarily obtaining…

— Paul Keres

In games against humans, you often win because the opponent blunders a piece, and you can often survive when you do it yourself. Against…

— Vladimir Kramnik

In chess you try to do your best, but there are instances where you make mistakes or you try and take risks that you…

— Hikaru Nakamura

Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or…

— Mikhail Tal

When you don't know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea; it is sure to be bad.

— Siegbert Tarrasch