On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long — Emanuel Lasker
Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements. — Jose Raul Capablanca
Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard — Reuben Fine
Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted. — Vladimir Putin
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind. — Bobby Fischer
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
Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic. — Mikhail Botvinnik
These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess. — Kobe Bryant
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. — Raymond Chandler
An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess. — Jose Raul Capablanca
Chess is everything: art, science, and sport. — Anatoly Karpov
Short Chessboard Quotes
The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard — Aron Nimzowitsch
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity — Pope Francis
An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard. — Savielly Tartakower
All that matters on the chessboard is good moves. — Bobby Fischer
The center of the chessboard is a magnet, which pulls to itself all the pieces. — Ashot Nadanian
Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game. — Wendell Phillips
On the chessboard, if nowhere else, justice does triumph. — Irving Chernev
There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world — Pierre Mac Orlan
My world we humans we’re just pawns on an immortal chessboard. — Karen Marie Moning
The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake — Rohinton Mistry
Chessboard Image Quotes
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
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
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
Help your pieces so they can help you — Paul Morphy
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
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
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
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
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 give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent — Bobby Fischer
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
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
When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play. — Vladimir Kramnik
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
Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy. — Luke McShane
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 Pawns Quotes
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
Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position — Anatoly Karpov
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
He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess. — Siegbert Tarrasch
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
The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and during the endgame they turn out, as a rule, to be weak. — Boris Spassky
Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf — Cecil Purdy
The power of hanging Pawns is based precisely in their Mobility, in their Ability to create acute situations instantly. — Boris Spassky
I'd rather have a Pawn than a finger — Reuben Fine
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent. You see the opportunity but also greater limitations than you should. I have always believed in what I do on the chessboard, even when I had no objective reason to. It is better to overestimate your prospects than underestimate them. — Magnus Carlsen
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
The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren't as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single, simple rule holds true: make good decisions and you'll succeed; make bad ones and you'll fail. — Garry Kasparov
I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights. — Raymond Chandler
Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard? — Aldous Huxley
Above the stage was a glass-floored second stage, which allowed customers to look up and watch another girl dancing overhead. This multidimensional display of poontang reminded me of the 3-D chessboard on Star Trek, which in turn reminded me that I was a huge nerd. — Diablo Cody
You know, if I'm in a bad mood, I always look at the chessboard, just to find something that can cheer me up. — Garry Kasparov
I ask people what piece they are on the chessboard. And some people say 'I'm the king' or 'I'm the knight.' And then they ask me what piece I am, and I say, 'I'm no piece. I take the position of God.' — RZA
Perhaps there is a reason that there is no fool piece on the chessboard. What action, a fool? What strategy, a fool? What use, a fool? Ah, but a fool resides in a deck of cards, a joker, sometimes two. Of no worth, of course. No real purpose. The appearance of a trump, but none of the power: Simply an instrument of chance. Only a dealer may give value to the joker. — Christopher Moore
The center of the chessboard is a magnet, which pulls to itself all the pieces. Therefore the most beautiful and amazing moves, for me, are those with which a piece, counteracting the gravitational force of the center, suddenly fly to the edge of the board. — Ashot Nadanian
When we talk about 'reproductive rights' this is what we mean. It's the difference between people as objects, and people as agents: between regarding people as pawns on the policy chessboard and recognizing them as the players, the decision-makers, the drivers of policy; autonomous individuals intimately concerned with the direction of their own lives. Under these conditions women, especially, enjoy better health and live fuller lives. — Nafis Sadik
That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some. — Richard Bach
You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player. — Marc Lowrance
I learnt an enormous amount, but there came a point where I found there was too much stress. It was no fun any more. Outside of the chessboard I avoid conflict, so I thought this wasn't worth it. — Magnus Carlsen
It is important that you don't let your opponent impose his style of play on you. A part of that begins mentally. At the chessboard if you start blinking every time he challenges you then in a certain sense you are withdrawing. That is very important to avoid. — Viswanathan Anand
The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated — Frederick Sommer
Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the ties which link Chess with the human soul — Al-Masudi
It suddenly occurred to me that every move on the chessboard is old and has been played by somebody at some time. Maybe our own history has been played out by somebody at some time, and we just move our pieces about in the same moves to strike in the same way as people have always done. — Karel Capek
The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the strongest. For myself, I claim only to be a knight, advancing in a crooked progress. Do we move ourselves, do you think, or does a great gloved hand place on our squares — Catherine Fisher
Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard trying to avoid the archer's bolt. The others work their strategies and wait for the old man to fall. He has no power, yet all power moves in his orbit and to his mad whim. Do you know there's no fool piece on the chessboard, Kent?" "Methinks the fool is the player, the mind above the moves. — Christopher Moore
I guess it's hard, being apart all the time." "It really is. If Lucas were still here, everything would be different." Vic's smile turned smug. "Yeah, I'd have a roommate who could beat me at chess instead of the other way around." Ranulf never looked up from the chessboard. "I hear your insults and plan to silence them with my victory." "Keep dreaming," Vic called. — Claudia Gray
On the chessboard of his godforsaken existence, the pieces were lined up, the play preordained. Man, so many times in life you didn't get to pick your path because the way you went was decided for you. Free will was such bullshit. -Vishous's thoughts — J.R. Ward
Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink. — Mattie Stepanek
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