Chess Game Quotes - Page 3

Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan

After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived

The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.

I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.

The Pawns are the soul of the game

Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game

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

Life is too short for chess.

You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer

Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.

Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to learn to be able to do

In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead

The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do

Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents

If you're playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I got really good at blitz, one-minute chess games. But that's kind of like the cheap chess version.

Life's too short for chess.

For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime.

The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling.

I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of chess and other events can seem quite unimportant in comparison with a catastrophe on the chessboard.

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this.

After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game

Earlier in my career, I never thought of boxing as a chess game, but I confirm that they are, in fact, very similar. You can plan your fights and strategy just like you would in chess.

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

Chess is life and every game is like a new life.