Chess Quote by Viktor Korchnoi Download Open image “Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.” — Viktor Korchnoi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chess Modern Thinking Time Winning
All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
Tournament chess is not relaxing. It's stressful, even if you win. — Jennifer Shahade Copy Share Image
One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
No One has ever won a Game of 'Chess' . By moving Forward Only . Sometimes U have to move . Backwards to get… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Sometimes you feel like you're playing very well and, for some reason, you just don't win the tournament. — Seve Ballesteros Copy Share Image
Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That… — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
[Garry] Kasparov and [Anatoly] Karpov have something in common. They both want to become deputies of the Russian State Duma. — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors. — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost. — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out,… — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While I was… — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each… — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the… — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on… — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live… — Simen Agdestein Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the greatest minds of computer science, the founding fathers, like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener, they all looked… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Relationships are chess for women," he said. "They can see the whole board, plan way ahead. They're the queens, after all. We're the kings,… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
The election of Trump threw the chess board up. The pieces are all over the place. That's upsetting to a lot of people, but… — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
“the shadows. “Why do you think they invented chess?” “He’s got you there,” said the captain, following Fletcher. Jake jogged slightly to catch up… — Russell Blake Copy Share Image
[Photographer Julian Wasser] had this great idea that I should play chess naked with Marcel Duchamp and it seem to be such a great… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image