Quotes About Chess

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!

When men lose against me, they always have a headache ... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely healthy man!

I was labeled as a tricky player early on and have been regarded as tricky throughout my whole career. It was said that I was able to pull out tricks from nowhere.

My father and mother are exceptional pedagogues who can motivate and tell it from all different angles. Later, chess for me became a sport, an art, a science, everything together. I was very focused on chess, and happy with that world.

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.

It's not 64 squares. It's a battlefield. There's no luck, there's no dice. It's just you and your opponent.

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love.

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

But with the Berlin, I was able to allow him to get near, but not quite near enough, and I knew where to draw the line with the fortresses I had set up.

With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.

My five-year-old, before the quarantine, joined a chess class in our neighborhood in Brooklyn, and my husband was learning to play so that they could play against each other.

When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn.

My mother is Russian and father Nepalese, so we always had a chess board at home. Chess is part of the culture in both Russia and Nepal.

So chess is kind of this nice thing that I have no real aspiration for. It's just a frivolous thing I can enjoy.

Do you play tennis, Senator? Now and then, he said with a ghost of a smile. He didn't add he'd lettered i the sport at Harvard. I'd imagine chess would be your game-plotting,long-term strategy. His smile remained enigmatic as he reached for his wine. We'll have to have a game. Shelby's low laugh drifted over him. I believe we already have. His hand brushed lightly over hers. Want a rematch? Shelby gave him a look that made his blood spring hotly. No.You might not outmaneuver me a second time.

To the sound of this voice, to the music of the chessboard's evil lure, Luzhin recalled, with the exquisite, moist melancholy peculiar to recollections of love, a thousand games that he had played in the past... There were combinations, pure and harmonious, where thought ascended marble stairs to victory; there were tender stirrings in one corner of the board, and a passionate explosion, and the fanfare of the Queen going to its sacrificial doom.

We must assume, I think, that the forward projection of what imagination he had, stopped at the act, on the brink of all its possible consequences; ghost consequences, comparable to the ghost toes of an amputee or to the fanning out of additional squares which a chess knight (that skipspace piece), standing on a marginal file, feels in phantom extensions beyond the board, but which have no effect whatever on his real moves, on the real play.

In life, as in chess, it is always better to analyze one's motives and intentions.

Relationships are chess for women," he said. "They can see the whole board, plan way ahead. They're the queens, after all. We're the kings, limited to one square in any direction, on defense for the whole fucking game.

Se le dico, mastro Pernath, che tutto il mondo non è che una partita a scacchi!