Chess Quotes

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

Life's too short for chess.

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

Chess is life.

What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

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.

Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this.

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.

On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

Chess is mental torture.