Chess Quotes - Page 16

The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

Chess is a sport. A violent sport.

Life is too short for chess.

Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part.

No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.

The best initial move for white is 1. P-K4.

For surely of all the drugs in the world, Chess must be the most permanently pleasurable

Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can begin to grasp the secrets of chess.

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles

The pawn is the soul of chess.

It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the centre and, in addition, to the opening of a file for the rook.

Chess and theatre often lead to madness.

The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.

It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?

We don't really know how the game was invented, though there are suspicions. As soon as we discover the culprits, we'll let you know

Different people feel differently about resigning

Chess is like war on a board

I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.

There's no one alive I can't beat.

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary.

Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.