quotations about chess
Amberley excelled at chess--one mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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"The Adventure of the Retired Colourman"
Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
PASCAL
attributed, Essential Chess Quotations
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind.
BOBBY FISCHER
There are two classes of men: those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; and those who aim to control circumstances and who play chess.
EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS
Frances
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
KAZUO ISHIGURO
Never Let Me Go
I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him twenty minutes to pass the salt.
ERIC SYKES
attributed, Dim Wit: The Stupidest Quotes of All Time
I often feel that chess is like a form of mental boxing, not only because the contenders tend to feel battered and bruised after the contest (in the case of chess it's more mental and emotional than physical) but also because you can play a great game for six or seven hours, and after those many hours of mental and emotional investment, lose your concentration for a vital moment and get knocked out at the end!
DANIEL GORMALLY
Calculate Like a Grandmaster: Learn from the World-Class Attacking Players
One bad move nullifies forty good ones.
ISRAEL ALBERT HOROWITZ
All About Chess
The beauty of chess is it can be whatever you want it to be. It transcends language, age, race, religion, politics, gender, and socioeconomic background. Whatever your circumstances, anyone can enjoy a good fight to the death over the chess board.
SIMON WILLIAMS
attributed, "50 Greatest Chess Quotes Of All Time"
There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world.
PIERRE MACORLAN
attributed, Essential Chess Quotations
Those persons who make light of the wooden puppets that run over the surface of the chess board should recollect that a frame of wires strung with wooden balls was the familiar companion of the earliest mathematicians, that the science of logarithms was perfected by means of wooden pegs and a board pierced with holes, and that Napoleon won his victories before his battles were fought, by sticking his map of Europe full of pins surmounted by divers colored balls of sealing-wax.
FRANKLIN K. YOUNG & EDWIN C. HOWELL
The Minor Tactics of Chess: A Treatise on the Deployment of the Forces in Obedience to Strategic Principle
Chess is particularly the game of the unappreciated, who seek in play that success which life has denied them.
RICHARD RETI
Modern Ideas in Chess
Life's too short for chess.
HENRY JAMES BYRON
Our Boys
Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it.
VLADIMIR KRAMNIK
Music and Chess: Apollo Meets Caissa
In the opening a master should play like a book, in the middle game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play like a machine.
IRVING CHERNEV
The Bright Side of Chess
It's hard to understand why people who have enough time to play chess want to spend it playing chess.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Chess is as much a mystery as women.
CECIL J. S. PURDY
Chess Review, 1950
I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
WOODY ALLEN
attributed, Counterplay: An Anthropologist at the Chessboard
In the game of chess we see illustrated the game of life and its vicissitudes--success and failure.
OPOIX
attributed, Day's Collacon
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players.
ANATOL RAPOPORT
Strategy and Conscience