Chess Game Quotes - Page 2

My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player

Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it

I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind

Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.

A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.

Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!

I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth game, I wasn't feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game?

No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.

Tactics flow from a superior position

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.

There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game.

Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares

It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men

The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary