Chess Quotes - Page 5

Often, in the Ruy Lopez, one must be patient, wait and carry on a lengthy and wearisome struggle.

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.

Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with plans for the middle game.

Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

Chess demands total concentration

I like to make them squirm.

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.

Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.

Blitz chess kills your ideas.

Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.

To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.

Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it

I still hope to kill Fischer

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror

For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.