Chess Quotes
Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer. - Albert Einstein
You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player. - Jose Raul Capablanca
The Pawns are the soul of the game. - Francois Andre Danican Philidor
Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game. - Siegbert Tarrasch
Good positions don't win games, good moves do. - Gerald Abrahams
Help your pieces so they can help you. - Paul Morphy
A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror. - Wilhelm Steinitz
My style is somewhere between that of Tal and Petrosian. - Reshevsky
Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought was not possible to foresee from the opening. - Mikhail Tal
Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess is supposed to be. - Vladimir Nabokov
Every Pawn is a potential Queen. - James Mason
When you see a good move, look for a better one. - Emanuel Lasker
Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares. - Miguel Najdorf
Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game. - William Steinitz
One bad move nullifies forty good ones. - Horowitz
Is Bobby Fischer quite sane?. - Salo Flohr
Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived. - Larry Evans
Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the quiet positional players. They slowly grind you down by taking away your space, tying up your pieces, and leaving you with virtually nothing to do!. - Yasser Seirawan
No price is too great for the scalp of the enemy King. - Koblentz
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient. - Aaron Nimzovich
Becoming successful at Chess allows you to discover your own personality. That's what I want for the kids I teach. - Saudin Robovic
Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard. - Reuben Fine
The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind. - Emanuel Lasker
We like to think. - Gary Kasparov
In life, as in Chess, one.s own Pawns block one.s way. A man.s very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him. - Charles Buxton
Chess is like war on a board. - Bobby Fischer
Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player. - Siegbert Tarrasch
Examine moves that smite! A good eye for smites is far more important than a knowledge of strategical principles. - Purdy
Tactics flow from a superior position. - Bobby Fischer
The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move. - David Bronstein
Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all. - Bobby Fischer
The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing. - Savielly Tartakover
Some part of a mistake is always correct. - Savielly Tartakover
Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game. - Wilhelm Steinitz
I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed. - Emanuel Lasker
Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money. - Benjamin Franklin
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the Chess player, not the Chess piece. - Ralph Charell
Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity. - Vladimir Nabokov
Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic. - Mikhail Botvinnik
As one by one I mowed them down, my superiority soon became apparent. - Jose Capablanca
It.s just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something. - Bobby Fischer
I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it. - Bobby Fischer
There's never before been a Chess player with such a thorough knowledge of the intricacies of the game and such an absolutely indomitable will to win. I think Bobby is the greatest player that ever lived. - Lisa Lane
On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. - Emanuel Lasker
The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly. - Irving Chernev
To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game. - Savielly Tartakover
Chess is a cold bath for the mind. - Sir John Simon
Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!. - Alexander Kotov
If Chess is a science, it's a most inexact one. If Chess is an art, it is too exacting to be seen as one. If Chess is a sport, it's too esoteric. If Chess is a game, it's too demanding to be just a game. If Chess is a mistress, she's a demanding one. If Chess is a passion, it's a rewarding one. If Chess is life, it's a sad one. - Unknown
A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused. - Rudolph Spielmann
Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people. - Nigel Short
Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine. - Mikhail Tal
One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent. - Siegbert Tarrasch
Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess. - Mikhail Botvinnik
Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise them. It is because combinations are possible that Chess is more than a lifeless mathematical exercise. They are the poetry of the game; they are to Chess what melody is to music. They represent the triumph of mind over matter. - Reuben Fine
The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem. - Marcel Duchamp
Chess is life. - Bobby Fischer
Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands!. - Renaud and Kahn
By the beauty of his games, the clarity of his play, and the brilliance of his ideas, Fischer made himself an artist of the same stature as Brahms, Rembrandt, and Shakespeare. - David Levy
Chess is as much a mystery as women. - Purdy
Winning isn't everything... but losing is nothing. - Mednis
Without error there can be no brilliancy. - Emanuel Lasker
When you don't know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponent's mind. You may be sure that idea will be wrong. - Siegbert Tarrasch
Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!. - Aaron Nimzowitsch
Chess is in its essence a game, in its form an art, and in its execution a science. - Baron Tassilo
The mistakes are there, waiting to be made. - Savielly Tartakower
Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns. - Siegbert Tarrasch
Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game. - Nigel Short
Chess is the art of analysis. - Mikhail Botvinnik
In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else, for whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame. - Jose Raul Capablanca
In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody. - Paul Keres
Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty. - Dominic Lawson
After black's reply to .e with ..e, leaves him always trying to get into the game. - Howard Staunton
You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances. - Bobby Fischer
Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to learn to be able to do. - Maurice Ashley
We must make sure that Chess will not be like a dead language, very interesting, but for a very small group. - Sytze Faber
Not only will I predict his triumph over Botvinnik, but I'll go further and say that he'll probably be the greatest Chess player that ever lived. - John Collins
It is no time to be playing Chess when the house is on fire. - Italian Proverb
I'm not a materialistic person, in that, I don't suffer the lack or loss of money. The absence of worldly goods I don't look back on. For Chess is a way I can be as materialistic as I want without having to sell my soul. - Jamie Walter Adams
All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves. - Bobby Fischer
You can only get good at Chess if you love the game. - Bobby Fischer
There must have been a time when men were demigods, or they could not have invented Chess. - Gustav Schenk
I give percent of my mental energy to Chess. Others give only percent. - Bobby Fischer
Fischer is under obligation to nobody. - Joseph Platz
Live, lose, and learn, by observing your opponent how to win. - Amber Steenbock
I am the best player in the world and I am here to prove it. - Bobby Fischer
Robert Fischer is a law unto himself. - Larry Evans
We don't really know how the game was invented, though there are suspicions. As soon as we discover the culprits, we'll let you know. - Bruce Pandolfini
Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer. - Mike Goodall
Chess demands total concentration. - Bobby Fischer
A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket. - Richard Fenton
When I have White, I win because I am white; When I have Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov. - Bogolyubov
Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance. - Richard Reti
In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated. - Emanuel Lasker
It is always better to sacrifice your opponent's men. - Savielly Tartakower
Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation. - Max Euwe
The laws of Chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not. - Emanuel Lasker
Blessed be the memory of him who gave the world this immortal game. - A. G. Gardiner
Life is like a game of Chess, changing with each move. - Chinese proverb
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions; for life is a kind of Chess. - Benjamin Franklin
All my games are real. - Bobby Fischer
Chess is really ninety nine percent calculation. - Soltis
Castle early and often. - Rob Sillars
Of Chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not Chess. - William Ewart Napier
Fischer, who may or may not be mad as a hatter, has every right to be horrified. - Jeremy Silman
I'd rather have a Pawn than a finger. - Reuben Fine
The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature. - Stanley Ellin
A bad plan is better than none at all. - Frank Marshall
When your house is on fire, you can.t be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don.t worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side. - Gary Kasparov
Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf. - Cecil Purdy
Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at , you can forget about it. - Anand Viswanathan
The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do. - Gerald Abrahams
I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth game, I wasn't feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game?. - Siegbert Tarrasch
At this time Fischer is simply a level above all the best Chessplayers in the world. - John Jacobs
Bobby is the finest Chess player this country ever produced. His memory for the moves, his brilliance in dreaming up combinations, and his fierce determination to win are uncanny. - John Collins
A good player is always lucky. - Jose Raul Capablanca
Those who say they understand Chess, understand nothing. - Robert Hubner
Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue. - Reti
Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind. - Bobby Fischer
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of Chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved. - Soren Kierkegaard
Chess is not like life... it has rules!. - Mark Pasternak
Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make people happy. - Siegbert Tarrasch
A bad day of Chess is better than any good day at work. - Anonymous
We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature. - Rudolf Spielman
Adequate compensation for a sacrifice is having a sound combination leading to a winning position; adequate compensation for a blunder is having your opponent snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. - Bruce A. Moon
Daring ideas are like Chess men moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived. - Edmar Mednis
If you aren't afraid of Spassky, then I have removed the element of money. - Jim Slater
I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings. - Wilhelm Steinitz
My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration. - Bobby Fischer
Chess is imagination. - David Bronstein
The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess. - Lodewijk Prins
Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events. - Benjamin Franklin
In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead. - Isaac Kashdan
I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently. - Mark Twain
In Chess, just as in life, today's bliss may be tomorrow's poison. - Assaic
Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self image and self esteem. - Saudin Robovic
Many have become Chess Masters, no one has become the Master of Chess. - Siegbert Tarrasch
Already at years of age he was a Grandmaster, a record at that time, and his battle to reach the top was the background for all the major Chess events of the . - Tim Harding
The battle for the ultimate truth will never be won. And that's why Chess is so fascinating. - Hans Kmoch
A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a matter of course. - Siegbert Tarrasch
You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play Chess like you. - Che Guevara
The King is a fighting piece. Use it!. - Wilhelm Steinitz
For surely of all the drugs in the world, Chess must be the most permanently pleasurable. - Assiac
There just isn't enough televised Chess. - David Letterman
A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it. - Wilhelm Steinitz
One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat. - Siegbert Tarrasch
Excellence at Chess is one mark of a scheming mind. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board. - Mikhail Botvinnik
When in doubt... play Chess!. - Tevis
There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!. - Boris Spassky
For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every Chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime. - Eduard Gufeld
Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half. - Jan Tinman
Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration. - C. J. S. Purdy
I consider Fischer to be one of the greatest opening experts ever. - Keith Hayward
I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses. - Ron Gross
I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves. - Bobby Fischer
Chess is a beautiful mistress. - Bent Larsen
Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists. - Marcel Duchamp
Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion. - Alfred Binet
When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war. - Aristotle
Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble. - Stanley Kubrick
All Chess players should have a hobby. - Savielly Tartakower
Chess is the gymnasium of the mind. - Blaise Pascal
It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position. - Richard Reti
Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it. - Judith Polgar
I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of Chess. - Siegbert Tarrasch
Fischer wanted to give the Russians a taste of their own medicine. - Larry Evans
Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. - Hindu proverb
Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few. - Georg Kieninger
Man is a frivolous, a specious creature, and like a Chess player, cares more for the process of attaining his goal than for the goal itself. - Dostoyevsky
I like the moment when I break a man's ego. - Bobby Fischer
Chess is percent tactics. - Teichmann
There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess. - H. G. Wells
I love all positions. Give me a difficult positional game, I will play it. But totally won positions, I cannot stand them. - Hein Donner
It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well. - Siegbert Tarrasch
We must make sure that Chess will not be like a dead language, very interesting, but for a very small group. - Sytze Faber
Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone. - Miguel Najdorf
I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess. - Bobby Fischer
The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master. - Bent Larsen
Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent. - Mikhail Tal
Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack. - Wilhelm Steinitz
When the Chess game is over, the Pawn and the King go back to the same box. - Irish saying
That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one. - Bobby Fischer
I like to say that Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever. But what made Fischer a genius was his ability to blend an American freshness and pragmatism with Russian ideas about strategy. - Bruce Pandolfini
A Chess game is a dialogue, a conversation between a player and his opponent. Each move by the opponent may contain threats or be a blunder, but a player cannot defend against threats or take advantage of blunders if he does not first ask himself: What is my opponent planning after each move?. - Bruce A. Moon
In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth. - Edmar Mednis
If cunning alone were needed to excel, women would be the best Chess players. - Albin
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. - Marcel Duchamp
Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces. - Akiba Rubinstein
If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off. - Nigel Short
White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to think up the moves himself. - Siegbert Tarrasch
I still hope to kill Fischer. - Boris Spassky
He who takes the Queen's Knight's Pawn will sleep in the streets. - Anonymous
Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work. - Mikhail Botvinnik
I look one move ahead... the best!. - Siegbert Tarrasch
A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a matter of course. - Siegbert Tarrasch
Only sissies Castle. - Rob Sillars
Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!. - Siegbert Tarrasch
The hardest game to win is a won game. - Emanuel Lasker
Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury. - Mig Greengard
Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists. - Mikhail Botvinnik
Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player. - Euwe
Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline. - Mikhail Botvinnik
Place the contents of the Chess box in a hat, shake them up vigorously, pour them on the board from a height of two feet, and you get the style of Steinitz. - H. E. Bird
Chess is like life. - Boris Spassky
Nonsense was the last thing Fischer was interested in, as far as Chess was concerned. - Elie Agur
If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me. - Bobby Fischer
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life. - Edward Morgan Foster
My God, Bobby Fischer plays so simply. - Alexei Suetin
Different people feel differently about resigning. - Bobby Fischer
Every Chess master was once a beginner. - Chernev
If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw. - Jeremy Silman
I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of Chess and other events can seem quite unimportant in comparison with a catastrophe on the chessboard. - Vlastimil Hort
No one ever won a game by resigning. - Unknown
I prefer to lose a really good game than to win a bad one. - David Levy
The older I grow, the more I value Pawns. - Keres
Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents. - Yuri Balashov
Any material change in a position must come about by mate, a capture, or a Pawn promotion. - Purdy
In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game. - Samuel Standige Boden
Why must I lose to this idiot?. - Aron Nimzovich
There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player. - Bobby Fischer
It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men. - Savielly Tartakover
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind. - Bobby Fischer
The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game. - Albert Einstein
A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player. - Bobby Fischer
There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess. - Mortimer Collins
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what Chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it.s really a good idea and whether there are other better ideas. - Stanley Kubrick
The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary. - Aaron Nimzovich
The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made. - Savielly Tartakover
Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card. - Max Euwe
Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine. - Spielmann
Chess is mental torture. - Garry Kasparov
Chess opens and enriches your mind. - Saudin Robovic
What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game. - Siegbert Tarrasch
A passed Pawn increases in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. - Capablanca
Checkers is for tramps. - Paul Morphy
He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess. - Siegbert Tarrasch
In blitz, the Knight is stronger than the Bishop. - Vlastimil Hort
All I want to do, ever, is just play Chess. - Bobby Fischer
Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess player who has ever lived. - Ken Smith
Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to stop him.. - Bruce Pandolfini
There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine. - Mikhail Tal
With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time. - Burt Hochberg
No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness. - Viktor Korchnoi
Chess is above all, a fight!. - Emanuel Lasker
Chess is everything: art, science and sport. - Anatoly Karpov
The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature and the player on the other side is hidden from us. - Thomas Huxley
When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic. - John van der Wiel
Chess is above all, a fight!. - Emanuel Lasker
Chess is a fairy tale of blunders. - Savielly Tartakower
Pawns are born free, yet they are everywhere in chains. - Rick Kennedy
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world Chess Championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. - Richard Dawkings
The Pin is mightier than the sword. - Fred Reinfeld
During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk. - Alexander Alekhine
Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it. - Bobby Fischer
The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the Pawn structure. - Michael Stean
Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight. - Jose Raul Capablanca
Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then your really have something to worry about!. - Siegbert Tarrasch
The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard. - Aaron Nimzovich
Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately. - Mikhail Botvinnik
Good offense and good defense both begin with good development. - Bruce A. Moon
Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a war game; that is, the representation of a miniature battle between the forces of two kingdoms. - Karl Meninger
Fischer is completely natural. He plays no roles. He's like a child. Very, very simple. - Zita Rajcsanyi
What would Chess be without silly mistakes?. - Kurt Richter
Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth. - Yasser Seirawan
Pawns: they are the soul of this game, they alone form the attack and defense. - Philidor
When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!' . - Mikhail Tal
If a ruler does not understand Chess, how can he rule over a kingdom?. - King Khusros II
The beauty of a move lies not in its' appearance but in the thought behind it. - Siegbert Tarrasch
When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive. - Boris Spassky
A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!. - Savielly Tartakower
Let the perfectionist play postal. - Yasser Seirawan
The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. - H.G. Wells
Openings teach you openings. Endgames teach you chess!. - Stephan Gerzadowicz