Best 81 quotes in «chess game quotes» category

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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

Tactics flow from a superior position

The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

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.

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 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 Pawns are the soul of the game

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine

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

The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do

You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer

And whatever happens next, I know that I am changed. I can no longer defend a king who doesn’t value me, the pawn who faces the enemy front lines. I can no longer fight for my own virtue, a knight who wields her sword in service. And I can no longer hide behind the walls of Gabriel’s castle. I’m a queen in my own right, whether I fall or fight another day, whatever my next move, wherever I land. I have the whole board to consider, every direction available. My fate may not decide the game, but I can go anywhere I want. The queen has freedom the king does not. She decides her own fate

To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game

What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game

When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'

When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game

Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind

Chess is not just a game. It is a way of life.

What Will Linger/Hollow of Him - They crept so quietly back. Mere hints of words, at first, then whispers in the loud echoing a winter past. In this place, hollow of Him, his poetry resounded. I could almost taste the fragments of the worlds he had discovered. I remember the ache in his words; you could see each syllable smoulder in his gaze.

Divided - No tides of time or distance will wash away your step. It does not fleet as they do, those gladiators and their mighty spears or the beasts that howl into the dark for release. Our story carves deeper, pitilessly, infinitely. A wound that bleeds the ink that stained your palm and the tears of an impossible tomorrow.

Quando si sposta il cavallo alla terza mossa significa che si hanno intenzioni bellicose.

The Offing - And if the sky itself, no matter its hue, were to fracture... What then? Would I then know freedom's name? In my wake lies the shore—a past where I had been happy—refusing to yield to the tide. Before me, upon the horizon, is the sun... hesitant... inert... A new day cannot rise if its ancestor does not fall. Am I but a pawn in this game? I cannot command the sun to set, nor will the moon to take its place and wash the shore away. That power belongs to kings. To drown in the offing. Such sovereign beauty. Such exquisite pain.

...why did you stick with me?” “That’s easy, Alice,” he said. His amber eyes melted into hers. “It’s the first rule of chess: always protect your queen.

All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.

After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived

Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares

Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.

Blessed be the memory of him who gave the world this immortal game

A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game.

Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game

Chess is life and every game is like a new life.

Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!

Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

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

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

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

Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise them. It is because combinations are possible that Chess is more than a lifeless mathematical exercise. They are the poetry of the game; they are to Chess what melody is to music. They represent the triumph of mind over matter

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

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