Chess Quotes - Page 10

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.

Shall we ever live to see the following wise prohibition - the audience is forbidden to smoke and the masters are forbidden to 'smoke out' the audience by playing exchanging variations?

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.

Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.

When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its power.

Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.

Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.

You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.

There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!

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

Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.

All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.

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

A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position.

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

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

He who analyses blitz is stupid.

If you don't know what to play, play nothing.

My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.

I learnt an enormous amount, but there came a point where I found there was too much stress. It was no fun any more. Outside of the chessboard I avoid conflict, so I thought this wasn't worth it.

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated.

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.