Quotes About Chess

In earlier times, when there was a rage for physiognomy, a Gall might have dissected the brains of such chess champions to determine whether there was a special convolution in their gray matter, a kind of chess muscle or chess bump more strongly marked than in the skulls of others. And how excited such a physiognomist would

Mais il suffit d'une seconde pour faire comprendre que, le hasard n'y ayant aucune part, c'est une absurdité de vouloir jouer contre soi-même. L'attrait du jeu d'échecs réside tout entier en ceci que deux cerveaux s'y affrontent, chacun avec sa tactique […] vouloir jouer aux échecs contre soi-même est donc aussi paradoxal que vouloir marcher sur son ombre.

Nuestro amigo le salió enseguida al encuentro con el peón de su rey, pero Czentovic volvió a hacer una pausa sin fin, casi insoportable; era como cuando cae un rayo terrible y uno espera con el corazón palpitante que llegue el trueno, y el trueno no acaba nunca de llegar.

And so it came to pass that into the the rarefied elite of chess masters, whose ranks were filled by varied exemplars of intellectual superiority (philosophers, mathematicians, people of a methodical, an imaginative, often a creative disposition) someone completely outside the cerebral world penetrated for the first time: a cumbersome, monosyllabic country boy who could never be enticed even by the most wily journalist to utter a single word worth publishing.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course, but it contains more than a germ of truth.

Every single person in the profession has an engine as a helper now. The engines contain six or seven million games, searchable by opening move, player, country, time control. That makes it possible to really research your opponent.

For me, learning chess was natural; with my sisters around me, I wanted to play.

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

Coaching secrets? I don't think I got any. The main "secret" - love for chess.

This all felt important and significant, but Aden had put more than simple—relatively simple—affection into play. The captain had set up a very complicated game of chess and had moved all the pieces precisely where he wanted them, and Aden had just sat down opposite Vale and dumped over the table.

I gather you play chess, he'd said, and she'd given him a look, later he'd ralised it was fair warning; yes, she played chess. The had a mignificent coral and ivory set, worth a thousand acres of good arable land. He'd made soft opening, the way you do when you're playing a girl, and suddenly he found himself staring defeat in the facs - he'd never los a game except three times, to Senza.

For what it was worth, she got the impression that Niessa liked her, or at least approved of her, in the same way a chess-player approves of one of his pieces when it stays where it's been put and doesn't go wandering off all over the board.

I do hope in Ireland children in schools can experience the richness of chess and it's positive effects.

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

A fair estimate is that Bobby played one thousand games a year between the ages of nine and eleven, and twelve thousand a year from the ages of eleven to thirteen, most of them speed games.

Bobby announced that he'd never again participate in a Candidates tournament, because the FIDE system made it impossible for any but a Soviet player to win.

Soviet Chess Federation had four million members, and playing chess wasn't just required in elementary schools but compulsory in after-school activities;

Indeed, some of the Icelandic officials were convinced that Spassky was the better player and that he was going to defeat Fischer rather easily anyway. At the commencement of the match, they were privately expecting to see Fischer humiliated on the board.

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy". This was the dictum of Siegbert Tarrasch, one of the greatest chessmasters of all time, after 50 years of chess playing.

Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.

I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me.

The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.

Politicians should be dedicated to the welfare of the people, but sometimes politics becomes like a game of chess, in which the sole aim is to stay on board as long as possible.