Quotes About Chess

When you play Bobby, it is not a question of whether you win or lose. It is a question of whether you survive. —BORIS SPASSKY

David Ionovich Bronstein

There is not a single true chess player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as gambit games.

He understood immediately, and asked, 'What about the fire the dragon is breathing?' I said it was the same fire that burns inside everyone who is being trampled on. The same fire that can turn us into ashes and waste, but which sometimes, if some old fool like Holger spots us, plays chess with us and talks to us and just takes an interest, can become something totally different: a force which allows us to strike back.

My God, Bobby Fischer plays so simply

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

Any opening is good enough, if its reputation is bad enough.

Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.

Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well."

Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone

Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't really understand them.

Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.

I still hope to kill Fischer

Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.

Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

I got arrested for playing chess in the street. I said, it's because I'm black, isn't it.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.

Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.