quotations about chess
Chess is a domain in which criticism has not so much influence as in art; for in the domain of chess the results of games decide, ultimately and finally.
RICHARD RETI
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Modern Ideas in Chess
Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
PASCAL
attributed, Essential Chess Quotations
One bad move nullifies forty good ones.
ISRAEL ALBERT HOROWITZ
All About Chess
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
The Irrational Knot
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
There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world.
PIERRE MACORLAN
attributed, Essential Chess Quotations
I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
WOODY ALLEN
attributed, Counterplay: An Anthropologist at the Chessboard
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
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
Chess is as much a mystery as women.
CECIL J. S. PURDY
Chess Review, 1950
Life's too short for chess.
HENRY JAMES BYRON
Our Boys
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
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 particularly the game of the unappreciated, who seek in play that success which life has denied them.
RICHARD RETI
Modern Ideas in Chess
You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.
BOBBY FISCHER
radio interview, January 27, 2002
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
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
During a chess competition, a chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk.
ALEXANDER ALEKHINE
attributed, Chess Analytics: Training with a Grandmaster
In the game of chess we see illustrated the game of life and its vicissitudes--success and failure.
OPOIX
attributed, Day's Collacon
The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.
SAVIELLY TARTAKOWER
Chess Digest Magazine, 1975