Chess Quotes - Page 23

We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.

Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result.

Why are most chess masters under 30?

Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said; ‘there’s a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral of that is– “The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.

The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.

Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

...the initial position is decisive Zugzwang.

A chess tournament disguised as a circus.

Chess is and will always be a game of chance.

There is luck in chess. My opponent was lucky that he was playing against an idiot.

Like us as Black", beg the chess pieces," and you will anyway like us as White

Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.

There are no hopeless positions; there are only inferior positions that can be saved. There are no drawn positions; there are only equal ones in which you can play for a win. But at the same time, don't forget that there is no such thing as a won position in which it is impossible to lose.

tennis is a 100-mph chess match.

Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.

All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis.

The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

Chess is life and every game is like a new life.

Even when the time control has been reached, there is one situation where you want to act as if it has not: when your position is absolutely lost.

The Russians have fixed world chess.

In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed.

Just reading about the various opinions concerning the conduct of the recent championship matches convinces me that the only thing to which two chessplayers could agree is that a third one is over-rated.

Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.