Chess Quotes - Page 14

It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.

When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

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

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic

The Ruy Lopez occupied a constant place in my opening repertoire. In it is reflected the classical interpretation of the problem of the centre.

I have frequently stated that I regard chess as an art form, where creativity prevails over other factors.

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.

Those who say they understand Chess, understand nothing

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder

There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.

The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem

I hope we will be able to have a happy family ourselves.

India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.

Hold'em is to stud what chess is to checkers.

When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age.

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

The Pawns are the soul of the game