Best 681 quotes in «chess quotes» category

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.

I think with chess as with everything, marketing is the main issue.

It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the centre and, in addition, to the opening of a file for the rook.

It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.

It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.

It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.

It is impossible to ignore a highly important factor of the chess struggle - psychology.

I thought I was playing the world champion, not some 27-eyed monster who sees everything in all positions.

It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?

It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.

It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.

It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.

It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the end game. One of the principal requisites of good chess is the ability to treat both the middle and end game equally well.

It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position

It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the beauty of a combination, and that the combination is prettier by the magnitude of the sacrifices.

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.

It must be clearly understood that Soviet players do not seek simple systems in the opening, but try to formulate opening systems in which everything is complicated, distinctive, or new.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.

It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.

It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame.

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.

It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often failed to find a win even in a won position

I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss.

I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.

It was Steinitz who was the first to establish the basic principles of general chess strategy. He was a pioneer and one of the most profound researchers into the thruth of the game, which was hidden from his contemporaries.

I was still too weak to understand his chess ideas at that time but I remember being covered in smoke.

I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha's mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move.

I was labeled as a tricky player early on and have been regarded as tricky throughout my whole career. It was said that I was able to pull out tricks from nowhere.

I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.

I would say, you have a unique chance of learning more about the game of chess with your computer than Bobby Fischer, or even myself, could manage throughout our entire lives. What is very important is that you will use this power productively and you will not be hijacked by the computer screen. Always keep your personality intact.

I would never suggest to anyone that they drop school for chess. First of all even if you can make it in chess, your social skills need to be developed there.

Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play one and the same opening system, even though it be rich in variations and nuances.

Just reading about the various opinions concerning the conduct of the recent championship matches convinces me that the only thing to which two chessplayers could agree is that a third one is over-rated.

Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards.

I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder

Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth.

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part.

Let the perfectionist play postal.

Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are on the brink of disaster.

Marriage is like a chess match is initiated and the board expands over time until it takes up all of a life.