Chess Quotes

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

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.

Chess is life.

What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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