Top 1200 Chess Match Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy.

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money

Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.

The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.

We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.

If you are serious about being a professional chess player, do know what your parents think and what their expectations are from you.

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee.

I barely know what my plans are for tomorrow, but I hope chess will remain a major part of my life.

Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way.

Chess is a great training ground for poker players because it's a math-based game, much like backgammon is.

I'm used to litigating against incredibly competent, high-quality lawyers that are very good chess players.

I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.

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

Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression.

I hope 'Chess' will hit the big screen. It seems a natural to me. Good venues, tunes, and politics.

I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.

Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before.

With chess it was almost this palpable electricity that I felt. You're totally in control of your own fate. There's no luck factor. It's you and the pieces.

The most dangerous area is the centre, which has to be either attacked or defended in football, and it's the same in chess.

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

Football and chess can seem like sporting polar opposites, but there are so many similarities with the modern game.

I want to show how rich chess is and what kind of history it has, through culture, literature, and education.

Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them.

In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.

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.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

I have frequently stated that I regard chess as an art form, where creativity prevails over other factors.

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

It's certainly an honor to have kids who are looking up to me, but at the same time, I'm just trying to do what I can to raise the profile of chess.

When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its power.

Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players.

In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.

...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.

To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.

At lunchtime the place is jumping, while at night the dining rooms could have been rented out for chess tournaments.

What was great about Fischer is that when he became world champion is that chess was being covered everywhere. It was in all the major newspapers, it was on TV.

Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals.

In both games, you have to think fast. In chess you tend to know all the patterns already, just like in football.

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

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

Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player.

Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe that most people have some degree of talent for something--forms, colors, words, sounds. Talent lies around in us like kindling waiting for a match, but some people, just as gifted as others, are less lucky. Fate never drops a match on them. The times are wrong, or their health is poor, or their energy low, or their obligations too many. Something.

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.

Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.

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

The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic.

Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.

There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.

To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.

Yes, I think I have some good knowledge of India. I have lots of Indian friends in the chess fraternity.

I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.

The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and pipe.

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