Chess Quotes
Chess is a quiet game of raum music.
Leonid Sukhorukov
Victory goes to the one who made the penultimate mistake.
Savely Tartakover
With the right game on both sides, a draw is inevitable.
Siegbert Tarrash
In general, I think that in chess everything rests on tactics. If the strategy is a block of marble, then the tactics are the cutter with which the master acts, creating a piece of chess art.
Tigran Vartanovich Petrosyan
Pawn endgames are golf.
Purdy
There is no such woman whom I would not win, even having given a horse forward.
Robert James Fisher
Those who say that they understand chess do not understand anything.
Habner
In life – like in chess: when the game ends, all the pieces – pawns, queens and kings – end up in one box.
Irwin Yalom, “The Liar on the Couch”
Chess is like life, only life is a total war, and chess is a limited war.
Robert Fisher
Chess – like love – requires a partner.
Stefan Zweig, “Chess Short Story”
You can learn much more from a lost game than from a won one. You must lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.
Jose Raul Capablanca
Do not look for a move, not two moves, but look for the whole plan.
Znosko-Borovsky
Intelligence is determined not by the path, but by the result.
Garry Kasparov
On a chessboard, lies and deceit do not live long.
Lasker
Chess is primarily taught to be objective.
Alexander Alekhine
It’s always better to sacrifice your opponent’s pieces.
Tartakover
We are essentially pawns on a chess field, and pawns don’t know where their player’s hand will send.
Mikhail Sholokhov, “Quiet Don”
All my life with one woman is like an endgame with colorful elephants.
Victor Korchnoi
True, chess can be a sweet family game – but only until then. while the father beats his son.
Asberto Sordi
Debuts teach debuts. Endgames teach chess.
Gerzadovich
Perhaps for some people obscene language is obscene abuse, but for chess players it is daily bread.
Ashot Nadanyan
Your game cannot be better than your worst move.
Dan Heisma
The first principle of the offensive: do not let the enemy develop.
Fine
Gluteal muscles are what makes chess a sport.
Ashot Nadanyan
Chess is gymnastics for the brain.
Blaise Pascal
If the opponent offers a draw, try to understand why he thinks he is worth worse.
Nigel Short
No one was ever born a master. The path to this title lies through years of study, struggle, joy and sadness.
Paul Keres
In order not to lose a figure, many players surrender the game.
Tartakover
I have long been watching veteran chess players in real life. Most of them are adequate, optimistic and maintain sober thinking until they are very old. Yes, they look younger than their age!
Farid Karimov
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Every healthy society has a passed pawn.
Nimtsovich
Stirlitz smelled of burning, and indeed: Kasparov appeared from around the corner.
Joke
Do not rely on the mistakes of the opponent, but rely on them.
Bill wall
Chess is like a beautiful woman, to whom we constantly return, no matter how often she rejects us.
Anonymous
A good heart in chess is useless.
Nicolas Chamfort
Chess is not for the faint of heart.
Wilhelm Steinitz
One bad move can ruin forty good ones.
Horowitz
The parties are always different, the interviews are always the same.
Garry Kasparov
People have been playing with me for 15 years below their capabilities.
Robert James Fisher
To play correctly at the end of the game is necessary, but impossible.
Stoughton
When you play with Fisher, the question is not whether you win or not; the question is whether you survive or not.
Boris Spassky
Chess, like music, or any other art, can make a person happy.
Siegbert Tarrash
Before the endgame, the gods put a middlegame.
Tarrash
Who is your opponent today? “Today I play against black pieces.”
Akiba Rubinstein
You know you’re a chess fanatic when your first question is when meeting someone: What is your rating?
Bill wall
Only the initiative player has the right to attack.
Steinitz
Do not mock chess players. Is it easy to maintain mental health when you lose horses every day, you beat elephants, and you attack the queens?
Ashot Nadanyan
Put the board so that the sun shines in the eyes of your opponent.
Rui Lopez
There have been periods in my life when I almost believed that I could not lose even one single game.
Jose Raul Capablanca
Weaknesses of character usually occur during a chess game.
Garry Kasparov
Everyone wins in chess. If you enjoy the game, and this is the most important thing, then even defeat is not scary.
David Bronstein
Chess is the torment of reason.
Garry Kasparov
I consider each of my opponents a master until he proves to me the opposite.
Vasily Panov
The greatest art in chess is not to show the opponent what he can do.
Garry Kasparov
I would compare the world with a chessboard – That day, then night. What about pawns? We are with you. Move, squeeze and – beat. And put in a dark box to rest.
Omar Khayyam
It is not the one who thinks a lot that gets into time trouble, but the one who thinks not about that.
Gennady Malkin