Chess Quotes - Page 21

Chess is a miniature version of life.

Chess is one long regret.

Repeating moves in an ending can be very useful. Apart from the obvious gain of time on the clock one notices that the side with the advantage gains psychological benefit.

Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

A game is always won through a mistake.

Now I have the pawn and the compensation.

Golf is the loneliest of games, not excluding postal chess.

Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer

Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury

Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't really understand them.

Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an integral weakness of his make-up and can only be partially compensated by his employing his time allowance to the full.

The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess.

Fischer wanted to give the Russians a taste of their own medicine

Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived

Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this.

After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game

Life's to short for chess.

Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.

The battle for the ultimate truth will never be won. And that's why chess is so fascinating.

...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

Chess is a curse upon a man.

All chess masters can play one game blindfolded.