Chess Quotes
Chess Quotes
In Chess, just as in life, today’s bliss may be tomorrow’s poison.
Assaic
Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
Blaise Pascal
All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.
Bobby Fischer
Chess demands total concentration.
Bobby Fischer
Chess is like war on a board.
Bobby Fischer
That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.
Bobby Fischer
You can only get good at Chess if you love the game.
Bobby Fischer
Life is too short for chess.
Byron
Every chess master was once a beginner.
Chernev
The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.
David Bronstein
The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move.
David Bronstein
When you see a good move, look for a better one.
Dominic Lawson
Chess is life and every game is like a new life.
Eduard Gufeld
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life.
Edward Morgan Foster
On the chess-board lies and hypocrisy do not survive long.
Em. Lasker
Chess is above all, a fight!
Emanuel Lasker
In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.
Emanuel Lasker
Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.
Evan Esar
You cannot play at Chess if you are kind-hearted.
French Proverb
Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov)
Chess is a good mistress, but a bad master.
Gerald Abrahams
Chess is a curse upon a man.
H. G. Wells
Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.
Indian Proverb
When the chess game is over, the pawn and the king go back to the same box.
Irish Saying
Chess is not for the timid.
Irving Chernev
Chess is not relaxing; it’s stressful even if you win.
Jennifer Shahade
Chess is the struggle against error.
Johannes Zukertort
What would Chess be without silly mistakes?
Kurt Richter
The only thing chess players have in common is chess
Lodewijk Prins
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
Marcel Duchamp
Chess is the art of analysis.
Mikhail Botvinnik
Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.
Mikhail Botvinnik
It [chess] is eminently and emphatically the philosopher’s game.
Paul Morphy
The pawns are the soul of chess.
Philidor
There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world.
Pierre Macorlan
Chess is as much a mystery as women.
Purdy
Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands!
Renaud and Kahn
Those who say they understand Chess, understand nothing.
Robert Hubner
Chess, like love, is infectious at any age.
Salo Flohr
Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self image and self esteem.
Saudin Robovic
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.
Savielly Tartakower
Many have become Chess Masters, no one has become the Master of Chess.
Siegbert Tarrasch
Excellence at Chess is one mark of a scheming mind.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.
Tarrasch
When in doubt… play Chess!
Tevis
Chess is the only game greater than its players.
Tim Rice
A bad day of Chess is better than any good day at work.
unknown
Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.
Vladimir Kramnik
Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.
Vladimir Putin
Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess.
William Napier