Chess Quotations

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves

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.

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.

Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate!

On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack

Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.

Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

As a personality, I'm fighter, you know. And I don't give up, and if I believe I'm correct, I'm right, then I work, and I fight. Okay, this could be over a chess board, this could be in life, and so I defend my principles.

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired

For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror

I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go Wildcats), babysitter, photojournalist, drill team girl, emo kid - and not one of them defined me, but every single one will always play a part in who I am.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.

Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.

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

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

A lot of times, fighters get not only physically tired but mentally exhausted. It's like a chess match - you're thinking of offense and defense at the same time. It's almost exhausting to think about it. After a while, you just go, 'I'll move my pawn.' A lot of times in fights, people get exhausted, and they're just sick of trying to focus on it.

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'

My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.

We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.

No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world and current affairs. I also have many friends around the world with whom I like to keep in touch.

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.

I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.

I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.

I'm a fat kid on the inside. I love food so much, and I fluctuate about 25 to 30 pounds between movies. I feel like I have to do a chess movie that requires very little movement at some point, just so I can eat pizza and play chess on the beach all day.

When it come down to it on most nights it is about the player and the teams that work the hardest and not so much a chess match of strategy. Composure is key to playing defense and you cannot allow others to get under your skin and throw you off your game.

We're going to play the most sophisticated chess game, chess match ever known to man, with a virus.

We're moving chess pieces all over the place, ... We're moving them so fast, it's hard to keep track of where everybody is.

At lunchtime the place is jumping, while at night the dining rooms could have been rented out for chess tournaments.

Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one is simply a pawn on the chessboard. What decides everything is a conscious impersonal energy that sorcerers call intent or the Spirit.

We want our students to be A students and we know they can do it. There are special items for B students such as bracelets and things for boys like fire trucks and chess sets.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

When you play chess alone it's always your move.

Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.

Some studies make such a deep impression on you that they stay etched in your memory forever.

When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age ...

The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers.

Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.

The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that way.

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.

They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.

When I was eleven, I just got good.

Different people feel differently about resigning

All my games are real

Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something