Chess Quotes - Page 24

Chess is a game of bad moves.

My God, Bobby Fischer plays so simply

Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.

Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.

The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that I don't understand chess as a whole. But then again no one understands chess in its entirety. Perhaps talent is something else, in chess it is conditionality.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.

I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.

I don't like politics especially in chess. All I want is promote chess 24/7.

In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game

19.Rxc7N. There comes the novetly! [sic] Actually, the impression I had is that both players had more or less analyzed the rest of the game.

I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'

Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst.

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value, They say, that have past through most jewellers' hands. FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious.

When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic

Tournament chess is not relaxing. It's stressful, even if you win.

This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled by modern Lombards pensive chess.

Chess is not for the timid.

In chess there can never be a favorite move. I can probably pinpoint in a specific game, there might be a move that was like, "Oh, that was a good move." And maybe certain moves turned the whole game around, but there's not one special move that does that, unless it's checkmate because that's when the game is over.

In chess there is a world of intellectual values.

Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few

It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.

In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.