Chess Quotes

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.

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 am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

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.

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.

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

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 also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

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.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

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.

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.