Chess Quotes - Page 15

It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often failed to find a win even in a won position

The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

All my games are real

The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers.

Playing black, I put great stake in the Ruy Lopez: I liked it, feel it, and understand it; in matches with Hjartarson and Timman it served me well. - on preparing for World Championship versus Garry Kasparov

In Kansas I have a chess school.

Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

I was still too weak to understand his chess ideas at that time but I remember being covered in smoke.

During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk

Chess will always be the master of us all.

Chess is a matter of vanity.

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

Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.

When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.

Computers have changed the world of chess.

Chess is a matter of daily training.

Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop?

The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature

If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess.

An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.

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