Chess Quotes - Page 18

Fischer, who may or may not be mad as a hatter, has every right to be horrified

I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.

In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead

The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'.

Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that computer superiority over humans in chess had always been just a matter of time.

Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.

Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.

In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.

The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.

The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.

I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.

I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5

Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents

Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth

Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.

For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

I thought I was playing the world champion, not some 27-eyed monster who sees everything in all positions.