Chess Quotes - Page 19

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.

Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess.

... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.

I look one move ahead... the best!

The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.

The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed according to the sacrifices it contains.

Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression.

If you're playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I got really good at blitz, one-minute chess games. But that's kind of like the cheap chess version.

I always urge players to study composed problems and endgames.

For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.

A knight ending is really a pawn ending.

Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess

Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone

Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.

As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.

It was Steinitz who was the first to establish the basic principles of general chess strategy. He was a pioneer and one of the most profound researchers into the thruth of the game, which was hidden from his contemporaries.

After white's reply to 1.e4 e5 with 2.f4 the game is in its last throes

Life's too short for chess.

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

Chess is a fathead and feudal game.

Chess is not dominoes

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.