Top 1200 Chess Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Chess is a miniature version of life.

Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.

Life is too short for chess.

Chess is 99 percent calculation.

Chess is a matter of daily training.

The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it... He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that...in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

Chess demands total concentration

Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.

Chess is eminently and emphatically the philospher's game.

Life's too short for chess.

Chess is like war on a board

In chess there is a world of intellectual values.

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth

Chess is a sad waste of brains.

Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email and if you manage to get down to the town, there's text messaging and mobile phone calls. If not, the five minutes you get to speak to me on your communal phone is better than nothing. There are the chess nerds who want to invite you to our school for the chess comp next March and there's this town in the middle, planned by Walter Burley Griffin, where we can meet up and protest against our government's refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty." -Jonah Griggs

Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.

The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

The Russians have fixed world chess.

tennis is a 100-mph chess match.

There just isn't enough televised Chess

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.

In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

Chess isn't football or hockey.

You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.

Chess is a fathead and feudal game.

Hold'em is to stud what chess is to checkers.

I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.

Computers have changed the world of chess.

All Chess players should have a hobby

I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.

Snooker is just chess with balls.

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

Chess is most certainly not my life.

Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.

I grew up with 'Chess' and the music from the show.

Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf

Chess taught me patience.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

A chess tournament disguised as a circus.

You can't win the chess match if you don't have enough pieces.

Chess is and will always be a game of chance.

I'm a pretty good chess player.

Why are most chess masters under 30?

Chess is a game of bad moves.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic

Chess is a cold bath for the mind

Top players are privileged in the chess world.

Chess is the art of analysis.

Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory.

We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!

Chess is a natural cerebral high.

Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost.