Quotes About Chess

At the beginning of a game, there are no variations. There is only one way to set up a board. There are nine million variations after the first six moves. And after eight moves there are two hundred and eighty-eight billion different positions. And those possibilities keep growing. There are more possible ways to play a game of chess than the amount of atoms in the observable universe.

Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting.

And Nora smiled as she stared at all the pieces she still had left in play, thinking about her next move.

At the beginning of a game, there are no variations. There is only one way to set up a board. There are nine million variations after the first six moves. And after eight moves there are two hundred and eighty-eight billion different positions. And those possibilities keep growing. [...] In chess, as in life, possibility is the basis of everything. Every hope, every dream, every regret, every moment of living. (p.195)

There are nine million variations after the first six moves. And after eight moves there are two hundred and eighty-eight billion different positions. And those possibilities keep growing. There are more possible ways to play a game of chess than the amount of atoms in the observable universe. So it gets very messy. And

In fact, the name 'rook' derives from ruhk, the Persian word for chariot. Pawns were footsoldiers, bishops were elephants, knights were mounted cavalry, and speeding along at the edges of the board were the swift and deadly chariots.

Her curiosity would be the end of them both. "Chess. They are playing chess," he said, his voice oddly husky. "Chess? I think you meant chest. Yes, he has his hand on her chest," she murmured.

Always be wary of grabbing material at the cost of the coordination of your pieces.

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones, and mine.

Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.

To play for a draw, at any rate with white, is to some degree a crime against chess.

The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.

That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present. JOURNALIST. And your plans. PLAYER. To play!

There are more Grandmasters now than ever before: 1,200-plus today versus 88 in 1972. And

The lawyer manipulates the laws so it seems that there are no laws. This is a chess game of emotions and revelations. It seems that there is no morality from this in the laws.

He would then withdraw to his tudy to spend the rest of the morning on his great passion: chess

One characteristic apparently common to all chess players is a refusal to admit that their position in a lost game was truly indefensible.

Chess players tend to have the same biased attitude, convictions and irritants. e toward the game as they do toward the world, with their own likes and dislikes

This variation has to be played as dynamically as possible, not reduced to the defensive immobility you imposed. Its aim is to queen a pawn - that's the essential threat. Without some compensation for the initial knight sacrifice, you face a losing endgame.

Only a hopeless madman - or a chess genius - could live in such chaos.

according to the psychoanalyst Ruben Find, one of the world's greatest players, players are of two antithetical types. One is the hero, who has no religion, no reason for being, other than chess. His every satisfaction and every pleasure is drawn from the board and the viories it brings him; conversely, his every pain and fear of death is embodied in his defeats

The king of chess YouTubers? One fairly average Croatian player named Antonio Radic, otherwise known by his screen name, agadmator. He has 407,000 subscribers. Not views. Subscribers.

Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport.

I like to play chess. I moved to a small town, and nobody played chess there, but one guy challenged me to checkers. I always thought it was kind of a simple game, but I accepted. And he beat me nine or ten games in a row. That's sort of like living in a small town. It's a simpler game, but it's played to a higher level.