quotations about chess
The hardest thing in chess is to win a won game.
MAX EUWE
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From My Games, 1920-1937
Chess is as much a mystery as women.
CECIL J. S. PURDY
Chess Review, 1950
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
Chess is not a standard for measuring the abilities of your acquaintances--nor an epitome of all the sciences--nor a panacea for all human ills--nor a subject for daily toil and nightly meditation. It is simply a recreation, and only to be used and regarded as such. The less selfish you are in its pursuit--the clearer head--the more patience--the better temper you bring to the practice of it, the better will you illustrate the merits of chess as the most intellectual of games, and establish your own character as a philosopher even in sport.
HOWARD STAUNTON
"The Chess-Player's Handbook,", Littell's Living Age, Aug. 18, 1849
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
Now we appreciate that what affords us so much enjoyment in chess is really the same thing for all of us, be it for the layman who sees nothing finer in chess than the sacrificial combination or be it for the expert who marvels at the far-reaching scheme of a game. It is the triumph of the intellect and genius over the lack of imagination; the triumph of personality over materialism.
RICHARD RETI
Modern Ideas in 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 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
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Table Talk
Chess is not a science -- at least, not exclusively a science. The proportion as we see it is roughly one quarter science, one quarter art, and all the rest -- battle.
MAX EUWE & H. KRAMER
The Middlegame