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