Chess Quotes - Page 12

I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them.

Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.

Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?

An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.

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

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.

Chess is a test of wills.

No fool can play chess, and only fools do.

Not winning a tournament is not an option for me, unless it's no longer theoretically possible - then of course winning becomes impossible. But up to that point, not winning is just not an option.

Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.

Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

I often play a move I know how to refute.

The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

I believe that the best style is a universal one, tactical and positional at the same time.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

Drawn games are sometimes more scintillating than any conclusive contest.

My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian

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