Chess Game Quotes

Chess Game Quote of the day

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine

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

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves

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!'

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.

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else.

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer

Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all.

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game

Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half

Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard

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

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.

I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.

To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game

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

My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration

A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player

Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it

That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one

I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.

Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind

Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!

No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.

Tactics flow from a superior position

Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.

A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player

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

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.

Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men

What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game

Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game.

The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.

It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan

I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.

The Pawns are the soul of the game

After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived