Best 81 quotes in «chess game quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life's too short for chess.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Life is too short for chess.

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.

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

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

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!

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

Tactics flow from a superior position

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 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.

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine

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.

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

The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

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

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

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

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

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

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!'

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

...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.

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

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.