Quotes About Chess

We have no witnesses, no proof. But someone evil is moving us around like chess pieces.

Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable.

I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.

Knight takes Knight," I called into the cloudy night air. "Check.

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous.

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.

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

When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.

The knight of QB3 is under obligation, the moment the enemy gives him the chance, of undertaking an invasion of the center by Kn-Q5.

Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without giving him the satisfaction of a lover.

Queen's knight, he said quietly. To queen two. It was, he knew, a dangerous opening.

As Grey put his hand on the pommel, he heard a low Scots voice murmur in his ear: "Queen's rook to king eight. Check." Grey laughed out loud, a burst of exhilaration pushing aside his disquiet. "Ha," he said, though without raising his voice. "Queen's bishop to knight four. Check. And mate, Mr Ã¢â'¬Â¦ MacKenzie.

Chess, like love, is infectious at any age - Salo Flohr

Do not grab pawns at the expense of development or position.

We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.

When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box.

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.