Chess Quotes

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

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

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

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

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

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.

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

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.

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

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.

On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

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.

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

Chess is not for timid souls.

For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.