Top 1200 Chess Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

For young players, their minds are not overloaded. I am 54 with four kids and I do many other things. Even if I stopped everything else, spent months working just on chess, for a long match against most of the top players, a classical match, six hours, say, I don't stand a chance. I have a better chance in shorter matches. Rapid is 25 minutes, or blitz events where you have five minutes to make a move, or bullet games, where it is one minute. For blitz, five-minutes chess, I would be top ten, top five. But longer games, no chance.

I play my enemies like a game of chess

Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess.

Chess will always be the master of us all.

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.

The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move

All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis.

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

I had to chose between chess and cricket.

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

Tournament chess is not relaxing. It's stressful, even if you win.

Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone

All chess masters can play one game blindfolded.

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

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game

What would Chess be without silly mistakes?

Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.

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

Man, jiu-jitsu is such a chess match.

Every Chess master was once a beginner

No fool can play chess, and only fools do.

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

Which do I prefer? Sex or chess? It depends on the position.

Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.

Psychology is the most important factor in chess.

Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

You are never too old to play chess!

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

Chess, like love, is infectious at any age.

Football is like chess, only without the dice.

Chess demolishes differences. It's a language of different generations.

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

A chess problem is simply an exercise in pure mathematics.

Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess

In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

Perfectly correct chess exists only in theory.

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

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

Chess and theatre often lead to madness.

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens.

When you play chess alone it's always your move.

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

A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.

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

Chess is the only game greater than its players.

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

Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.

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

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

Blitz chess kills your ideas.

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

In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.