Help your pieces so they can help you — Paul Morphy
Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements. — Jose Raul Capablanca
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind. — Bobby Fischer
Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight! — Mikhail Tal
Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change. — Susan Polgar
Chess is everything: art, science, and sport. — Anatoly Karpov
Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard — Reuben Fine
On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long — Emanuel Lasker
Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted. — Vladimir Putin
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. — Italian Proverbs
Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf — Cecil Purdy
A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover. — Savielly Tartakower
When you finish the game, the king and pawn end up in the same box. — Italian Proverbs
I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees. — Alexander Alekhine
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. — Raymond Chandler
Chess Pieces Image Quotes
At the end of the game the kind and the pawn go back in the same box.
Chess Pawns Quotes
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient — Aron Nimzowitsch
The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them. — Jose Raul Capablanca
When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method. — Garry Kasparov
Don't start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday. Every morning we wake up is the first day of the rest of our life.
It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king. — Siegbert Tarrasch
A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending! — Bent Larsen
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
He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess. — Siegbert Tarrasch
A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. — Jose Raul Capablanca
The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. — Thomas Huxley
As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process. — Bobby Fischer
Chessboard Quotes
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more — Pope Francis
On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite. — Emanuel Lasker
I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess. — Magnus Carlsen
I would never want Ukraine to be a piece on the map, on the chessboard of big global players, so that someone could toss us around, use us as cover, as part of some bargain. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity — Pope Francis
Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire. — Zbigniew Brzezinski
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. — Carlos Castaneda
An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard. — Savielly Tartakower
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
Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens. — Jason Whitlock
Chess Quotes
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do. — Jean Piaget
You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one — Mikhail Tal
Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right. — Clive James
In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language. — Mikhail Tal
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. — Emo Philips
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. — Isaac Asimov
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
Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless. — Magnus Carlsen
There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine — Mikhail Tal
Chess Game Quotes
I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves — Bobby Fischer
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
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 middlegame and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame. — Jose Raul Capablanca
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
Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless. — Mikhail Tal
Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending. — Bobby Fischer
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
In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else. — Jose Raul Capablanca
Game Of Chess Quotes
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent — Bobby Fischer
A lot of people think being at the top means you have to be the best at a certain game. You don’t. It’s more about personality. — KSI
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess. — Marcel Duchamp
When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play. — Vladimir Kramnik
An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess. — Jose Raul Capablanca
It was a beautiful moment at the end to win a game of this stature. — Mikel Arteta
Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration — Cecil Purdy
I would say, in a year, I spend maybe half of that playing FIFA. I love it that much. — KSI
I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation. — Anatoly Karpov
The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors. — Viktor Korchnoi
Chess Players Quotes
Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to perfect themselves must regard their losses as lessons and learn from them what sorts of things to avoid in the future. — Jose Raul Capablanca
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind. — Edgar Allan Poe
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
I loved being the best player in the world. There was no pressure staying there. — Stephen Hendry
In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn't do well. They'd get bad openings. — Bobby Fischer
By 2012, my game was shot. You’re sitting on your chair watching players’ leagues below you play shots you can’t. That destroyed me. — Stephen Hendry
A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player — Bobby Fischer
I try to be a complete player – in attack and in defense – and to improve every year. — Antoine Griezmann
Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have a unique ability of taking in a lot of information and remembering relevant bits. So, memory and mental stamina are the key attributes. — Viswanathan Anand
Chess Match Quotes
The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it. — Sayings
At the highest level, if you don’t have a solid defensive base, you can’t get by. In one match, yes. But over a whole competition? No. — Didier Deschamps
The more matches I play, the better I feel on the pitch. — Antoine Griezmann
When I started watching matches, it was those of Marseille. After that, it was Lyon. I went to see them all the time in the league or the Champions League with my dad. — Antoine Griezmann
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost. — Viktor Korchnoi
We must be happy with the outcome because Rennes played a pretty good match tonight. They stopped us playing our way by defending well. — Didier Deschamps
In the current FIDE World Championship, on the knock-out system, weaker players have good chances. Those, who in a long match would practically have no chance, here may creep through. — Sayings
Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature. — Boyd Rice
I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it. — Bobby Fischer
Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that computer superiority over humans in chess had always been just a matter of time. — Garry Kasparov
The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a very important and aggressive piece, and the beginner should realize this, and utilize his king as much as possible. — Jose Raul Capablanca
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
To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game — Savielly Tartakower
To refer to the oft mooted question, "Which piece is stronger, the Bishop or the Knight?" it is clear that the value of the Bishop undergoes greater changes than that of the Knight. — Emanuel Lasker
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
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
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. — Thomas Huxley
In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns. — Wilhelm Steinitz
No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game. — Chuck D
Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns — Siegbert Tarrasch
The King is a fighting piece. Use it! — Wilhelm Steinitz
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome. — Jerry Seinfeld
Martial sex is kinda like ordering a Civil War chess set through the mail. You get one piece every four to six weeks, you don't know what kind of shape that piece is gonna be in when you get it, but you still gotta pay the handling charges. — Bill Engvall
Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces — Akiba Rubinstein
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
There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than lively piece play, but in our day the latter is more often preferred. — David Bronstein
The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary — Aron Nimzowitsch
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game. — G. H. Hardy
Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves. — Bobby Fischer
I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces. — Garry Kasparov
Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares — Miguel Najdorf
Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage. — Steve Sabol
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. — Ralph Charell
The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another. — Pal Benko
The Pawns are the soul of the game — Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are acculated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life! — Alan Rufus
I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak. — Emma Watson
The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. Acting in eight different directions, he becomes, instead of the weakest piece, one of the most formidable units. — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life. — Frederick Lenz
The process of making pieces in Chess do something useful (whatever it may be) has received a special name: it is called the attack. The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions. — Emanuel Lasker
Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved. — Bai Juyi
If you don't know what to do, find your worst Piece and look for a better Square. — Gerard Schwarz
My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible. — Dave Barry
Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won. — Peter Mayhew
Inexperienced players have a fear of this piece, which seems to them enigmatic, mysterious, and astonishing in its power. We must admit that it has remarkable characteristics which compel respect and occasionally surprise the most wary players. — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move. — Tony Robbins
The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life. — Richard Reti
Just as the pianist practices the most complicated pieces to improve the technique of his fingers, so too a grandmaster must keep his vision in trim by daily analysis of positions with sharp possibilities, and this applies whether he prefers such positions in his play or not. — Alexander Kotov
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