Chess Quotations

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

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.

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

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

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

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.

When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.

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.

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.

All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

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.

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

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

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

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

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.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

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

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

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.

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

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.

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

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 feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

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.

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

like a three-dimensional chess game. . . . The key is that the messages not be too far apart.

MEN LISTEN. Life is a chess game. PROTECT YOUR QUEENS

I wouldn't be surprised if he was a chess master. He likes competition and has fun competing.

He knows what's going to happen before it happens. It's like playing a game of chess with him. He can see a couple moves ahead and orchestrate the game.

I credit chess with helping to pull me out of depression and affording me a true circle of friends whom refuse to judge me for what they see on the outside.

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.

He was a well-liked student with lots of friends. He was a good math student and a good chess player.

He's been doing an excellent job. When he goes out on defense, he's got more energy. (Porters Chapel) made some good adjustments, double-teamed him and did a good job of running away from him. We did move him where they were running, and it was a chess game. But he's turned into his own.

Like starting a non-profit, being a chess champion, or football champion. Something they had passion for and excelled at.

Surprisingly, games like chess and backgammon are tactically very similar to games like football and baseball. While the physical nature of the game is very different, the situational nature is strikingly similar. A football coach is constantly making decisions with respect to multiple variables (score, field position, down, yards to a first down, etc.). Sophisticated computer models and simulations were introduced in chess and backgammon more than 20 years ago, and much has been learned. To say that technology has revolutionized these games would be an understatement. There is absolutely no reason that ZEUS cannot have an equally revolutionary impact on professional sports such as football and baseball.

I think it will be a heck of a chess match.

It definitely was a defensive battle -- almost like a chess match. And at the end, for those last few minutes, it was just pure grit.

I think their M.O. has been, if they do something new, to do it early and see what you do. They're really looking intently to see what you do so they know where to go with the next step. It's a chess game. If you don't play it well, they come back and do it again. If you do play it well, they go to Plan B.

It becomes a bit of a chess match, because I have to put my A swimmer hopefully in a spot where she will swim better than their A swimmer.

We don't have the luxury of surprise that we once had. It's always a chess game, and you're trying to stay one move ahead of the competition.

Without a visual sense of who was coming into the building and where they wanted to sit, it was like playing chess without a chess board. You could play chess with written notations in Excel, but it makes a big difference if you can actually see the demand and the revenue trends.

We're definitely close, probably as close as you get to a GM as a player but it's a business. It doesn't matter how you feel personally about somebody. You've got to make the best move. It's like playing a chess match. You're just pieces on a freaking board, that's what players are in this business. It doesn't matter how much they like you.