Chess Quotes - Page 9

Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.

A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.

Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!

I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth game, I wasn't feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game?

The future belongs to he who has the bishops.

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious than the absolutely correct one.

I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.

No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.

Tactics flow from a superior position

No pawn exchanges, no file-opening, no attack.

Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.

In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.

I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write.

A draw can be obtained not only by repeating moves, but also by one weak move.

The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.

Before Geller we did not understand the King's Indian Defence.

By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion

Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.

Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess.

If the defender is forced to give up the center, then every possible attack follows almost of itself.