Chess Quotes - Page 3

I'd like to always be romantic in chess. Sadly, this doesn't always work like that.

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately.

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game

The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.

Every Chess master was once a beginner

Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all

Chess is a beautiful mistress.

Checkers is for tramps

Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all.

Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player.

Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.

When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.

I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.

Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to stop him

Attack! Always Attack!

When Marx got into a difficult position he would get angry and losing a game would cause him to fly into a rage.

The only good Rook is a working Rook!

Your only task in the opening is to reach a playable middlegame.

The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.

Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half