Quotes About Chess

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position

The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly

In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth

Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.

You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess theory, of chess culture.

There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might have relegated him to a minor career.

As to the new pope, scarcely had he completed the formalities of etiquette which his exaltation imposed upon him, and paid to each man the price of his simony, when from the height of the Vatican he cast his eyes upon Europe, a vast political game of chess, which he cherished the hope of directing at the will of his own genius.

Well, the bad news," Swedish said from the wheel, "is that Chess still thinks he's funny." "What's the good news?" Loretta asked, leaning on our little copper-tubed harpoon. "That Kodoc dropped a bomb on the city?

If Chess is the switch," Loretta said, "how does he turn the Fog off?" Bea bit her lower lip. "I don't know—ask Chess." "How would I know?" I said. "You try being a switch.

For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime.

Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?

An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!

Chess is most certainly not my life.

I love chess very much. I love the game, the challenges. I could motivate myself as I was curious about how to improve every game. In chess, it's very clear that if you make a mistake you are punished. If you play well, you win.

Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.

I started going to chess clubs when I was in fourth grade. From fourth grade to seventh grade, I was in chess club.

Yes, I think I have some good knowledge of India. I have lots of Indian friends in the chess fraternity.

Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

logic is good for playing pyramid chess but often too slow for needs of survival.

In chess you try to do your best, but there are instances where you make mistakes or you try and take risks that you shouldn't. And I think losing games is a good thing, because you learn more from when you lose than when you win.

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games.