Chess Quotes - Page 6

The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession

Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess.

Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board

Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.

That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one

You are never too old to play chess!

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.

A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!

It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts.

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration

The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

Win with grace, lose with dignity!

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player

Strategically important points should be overprotected. If the pieces are so engaged, they get their regard in the fact that they will then find themselves well posted in every respect.

The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard

I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.

The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing

However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.

One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.

Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We don't know how God holds the kingdom in balance or why he moves a chess piece at a crucial time; we might never see the results of his sovereignty [...] I might just be one shade of one color of one strand, but I'm a part of an elaborate tapestry that goes beyond my perception.

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.