Best 81 quotes in «chess game quotes» category

Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it

Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents

Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all.

I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of chess and other events can seem quite unimportant in comparison with a catastrophe on the chessboard.

For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime.

Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.

Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.

Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.

If you're playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I got really good at blitz, one-minute chess games. But that's kind of like the cheap chess version.

If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth game, I wasn't feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game?

In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead

I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else.

It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this.

I love chess, and I didn't invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead. A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. I'm really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else; for, whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middlegame and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.

I stopped taking notes on my Palm Pilot and started playing the little chess game.

It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men

Life's too short for chess.

I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.

Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent

Life is too short for chess.

It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.

Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to learn to be able to do

My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration

No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, "Here! Have them all!

That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one

Remy you're my king." I hug him hard. "There's no chess game for me without you.

Tactics flow from a superior position

The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.

The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling.

The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the Pawn structure

The gigantic challenge is the magnitude of the individual differences in the optimal set point for "good stress." For one person, it's doing something risky with your bishop in a chess game; for someone else, it's becoming a mercenary in Yemen.

There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine