Chess Quotes - Page 17

You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer

As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.

Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love.

One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat

Is Bobby Fischer quite sane?

What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.

No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca.

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.

Chess isn't football or hockey.

Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists

The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.

Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to learn to be able to do

Training in analysis (like any other form of chess training) should be treated very seriously.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

I hate anyone who beats me.

If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.

In chess it is more important to frustrate your opponent's strategy than to be obsessed with your own.

My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess.

In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move.

The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with coins, or dice, or chess pieces, or pencils. He knows it, and that's that. He cannot conceive a different sum. There are mathematicians who say that three plus one is a tautology for four, a different way of saying "four" ... If three plus one can be two, or fourteen, then reason is madness.

Chess is a cure for headaches.