Chess Game Quotes

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine

Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent

I love chess, and I didn't invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead. A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. I'm really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else; for, whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middlegame and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.

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

When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else.

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

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

Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all.

When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.

Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half

Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard

The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the Pawn structure

Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise them. It is because combinations are possible that Chess is more than a lifeless mathematical exercise. They are the poetry of the game; they are to Chess what melody is to music. They represent the triumph of mind over matter

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

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

I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.

To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game

That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one

A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!