Quotes About Chess

Political analysis is full of chess metaphors, reflecting an old tradition of seeing games as models of physical and social reality.

I have to constantly work on my reflexes and hand-eye coordination. I do a lot of puzzles. I play chess.

My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess.

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.

There are unimportant pieces in any game.

If there is one thing I have come to know in my long years of study, it is that there is no such thing as luck when it comes to the positioning of the universe's chess pieces. Your coming here was no accident. I was meant to train you. I have seen it.

I barely know what my plans are for tomorrow, but I hope chess will remain a major part of my life.

I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.

There are two ways to have educational chess in schools, either through after school programs or using chess as a tool in classrooms to improve children's thinking.

El resto de nosotros, es decir, los seres anónimos, parecemos ser en el mejor de los casos objetos de la historia sin saberlo, peones de una partida de ajedrez que se desplazan hacia delante, se dejan en su sitio, se sacrifican o son abatidos y cuya vida, si es que la tienen, transcurre en un mundo totalmente distinto, sin la más mínima relación con lo que les sucede sobre el tablero de ajedrez que ocupan.

Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.

Who the hell let you animals into my office? I'll have you know I was playing a VERY unimportant game of chess right now with a man that kept saying King me.

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

Chess, like love, is infectious at any age.

I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.

In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else, for whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.

you must study the endgame before everything else.

One must attempt to increase whatever weakness there may be in the opponent's position; or, if there is none, one or more must be created.

My father was an important person, the director of the school. He could talk to anybody - simple or educated. He liked chess, fishing, and beautiful women.

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.

Remember that in chess, it's only the square you land on that matters.

Definitely, some of the artistry and poetry has been lost in modern chess. It's very rare that I play a game where I'm like, 'Wow, this is really interesting. There were so many possibilities! It was such a rich game.'

If you talk to some of the older players, they definitely say they see beauty in certain games. In my case, there are certain times when I think, 'Wow, that's so amazing, chess is so full of ideas.' But most of the time I tend to be much more pragmatic about it, as opposed to thinking about it as art or something exquisite.

In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.