Chess Quotes

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

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.

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

I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

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.

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It's not like I'm trying to make the right chess move. It's more just that personal thing where you get connected to something for so long and then you want to do something that's in opposition to that.

Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.

In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.

Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

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

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.