Chess Quotes - Page 7

Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it

Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.

Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

The mistakes are there, waiting to be made

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

Deux fous gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non!

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.

I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.

Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.

It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification.

Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf

The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and during the endgame they turn out, as a rule, to be weak.

Style, I've got no style.

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack

It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well

Chess is, above all, a fight.

Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it

It is said that an ounce of common sense can outweigh a ton of 'variations'.