quotations about chess
Chess is a domain in which criticism has not so much influence as in art; for in the domain of chess the results of games decide, ultimately and finally.
RICHARD RETI
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Modern Ideas in Chess
Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
PASCAL
attributed, Essential Chess Quotations
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
KAZUO ISHIGURO
Never Let Me Go
There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world.
PIERRE MACORLAN
attributed, Essential Chess Quotations
One bad move nullifies forty good ones.
ISRAEL ALBERT HOROWITZ
All About Chess
During a chess competition, a chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk.
ALEXANDER ALEKHINE
attributed, Chess Analytics: Training with a Grandmaster
Chess is as much a mystery as women.
CECIL J. S. PURDY
Chess Review, 1950
It's hard to understand why people who have enough time to play chess want to spend it playing chess.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
I often feel that chess is like a form of mental boxing, not only because the contenders tend to feel battered and bruised after the contest (in the case of chess it's more mental and emotional than physical) but also because you can play a great game for six or seven hours, and after those many hours of mental and emotional investment, lose your concentration for a vital moment and get knocked out at the end!
DANIEL GORMALLY
Calculate Like a Grandmaster: Learn from the World-Class Attacking Players
I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
WOODY ALLEN
attributed, Counterplay: An Anthropologist at the Chessboard
You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.
BOBBY FISCHER
radio interview, January 27, 2002
There are two classes of men: those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; and those who aim to control circumstances and who play chess.
EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS
Frances
Life's too short for chess.
HENRY JAMES BYRON
Our Boys
In the opening a master should play like a book, in the middle game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play like a machine.
IRVING CHERNEV
The Bright Side of Chess
I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him twenty minutes to pass the salt.
ERIC SYKES
attributed, Dim Wit: The Stupidest Quotes of All Time
Chess is an art form, but an unusual one in that its greatest achievements require the out put of two minds. An attack is only as brilliant as the defense it must overcome.
BRUCE PANDOLFINI
Treasure Chess
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
The Irrational Knot
The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.
SAVIELLY TARTAKOWER
Chess Digest Magazine, 1975
Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it.
VLADIMIR KRAMNIK
Music and Chess: Apollo Meets Caissa
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players.
ANATOL RAPOPORT
Strategy and Conscience