Top 1200 Chess Players Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!

The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.

Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.

I play chess, but my past is checkered, The mic and I are like staff and shepherd.

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

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players, and you keep them in the right frame of mind, the manager is a success. The players make the manager. It's never the other way. Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year. A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules. Talent is one thing. Being able to go from spring to October is another. You just got caught in a position where you have no position.

Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

The battle for the ultimate truth will never be won. And that's why chess is so fascinating.

I think a player constantly improves his understanding of chess with experience.

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

Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician.

I could think six shots ahead. It's no different to playing chess.

Only run special plays for special players; find plays that fit your players.

Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists

Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.

An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.

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

Possessing an array of athletic gifts is something most tennis players can only dream about. Most players, if they're lucky, have one attribute that stands out -- either a monster serve, great footspeed, superb touch, superior timing or innate feel for the ball.

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

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

I think what Brendan Rodgers did was right; I thought it was successful. He was able to show that he was able to change several players, prove to everybody in the team that no-one's guaranteed a spot, rest a lot of key players, and at the same time walk away with a very reputable result.

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

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

No, I've never had a job other than being a chess player.

Friends ask me to pick the best 11 players, but sometimes the best 11 players are not the best team. So it's something that you have to work together.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

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

Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.

Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham and all that, they're trying to promote it. At the end of the day it's about getting the younger generation interested at an early age so most of them will move on and play.

The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.

During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess

As a player, you model yourself after other players. Kobe takes the same approach as Michael Jordan. But I follow someone like Magic Johnson; he showed emotion, he smiled and jumped around, he was happy for his teammates. There needs to be more players like that.

Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too.

I got arrested for playing chess in the street. I said, it's because I'm black, isn't it.

I'm always on the players' side, of course. The owners are going to take their fill, but I'm always on the players' side.

I am really irked by healthy NBA players resting. I really don't understand it. Players in the past have played all season for years. I just don't love it. I feel like it hurts the integrity and competitiveness of the game. It's got nothing to do with the TV partners; it's about cheating the fans.

Even my players aren't players.

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

Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

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

There is nothing like chess to keep the brain smart, and give it a workout.

Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.

For surely of all the drugs in the world, Chess must be the most permanently pleasurable

I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.

He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.

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

I'm not going to lie and say that I'm good at Madden. There are some good players out there. There are some good players on the team. I get skunked all of the time.

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

You have better players and teams in England, and for myself, it is better to play in a better league against better players.

No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end.