Top 1200 Chess Match Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury

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

Chess, like love, is infectious at any age.

Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.

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

Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess.

Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration

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

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

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

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.

The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature

So the big question is, "Well, do I just dump all those unwanted things and try to start fresh?" And we say, no. You just set the Tone, where you are, by looking for things to appreciate. And by setting your Tone in a very clear deliberate way, anything that doesn't match it gravitates out of your experience, and anything that does match it gravitates into your experience. It is so much simpler than most of you are allowing yourself to believe.

To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.

There is luck in chess. My opponent was lucky that he was playing against an idiot.

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

Golf is the loneliest of games, not excluding postal chess.

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

It's very encouraging that the game of chess is growing in the U.S. and is becoming more popular.

Believe firmly that in chess there are no rules without exceptions.

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

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

A chess problem is simply an exercise in pure mathematics.

Most innovative little board game since Chess.

Everything that Marvel does, it's a chess move. Nothing is by accident.

Perfectly correct chess exists only in theory.

Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

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

I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses

That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices!

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

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

A great chess player always has a very good memory.

As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine.

The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.

In poker, you want to play the weaker guys. In chess, it's the opposite.

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

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

I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.

Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?

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

Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.

Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)

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

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

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

The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed according to the sacrifices it contains.

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position.

Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.

Staying interested in a match is a lot harder than many people think. Throughout my career, I've always had trouble in the early rounds of a tournament mainly because it was hard for me to psychologically get up until I got to the quarters or the semis. What happened a lot of times is that I would fall behind early, maybe even lose the first couple of sets in a five-set match and then begin to concentrate. Still it wasn't something I could control from the start.

Football is like chess, only without the dice.

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

This is football from the 19th century. It's very difficult to play a football match when only one team wants to play. A football match is about two teams playing. I told Big Sam, they need points. To come here the way they did, is that acceptable? Maybe it is, they need points. The only thing I could bring more was Black & Decker - a Black & Decker to destroy the West Ham wall.

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

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