Playing Chess Quotes

Playing Chess Quote of the day

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation

Every Chess master was once a beginner

Playing chess has many aspects that can be useful in everyday situations like planning, concentration and combinations. You learn to win but also to lose and to be creative.

Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty

Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

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

Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

No fool can play chess, and only fools do.

The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.

Let the perfectionist play postal.

I got arrested for playing chess in the street. I said, it's because I'm black, isn't it.

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

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.

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.

I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow.

I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of some sort.

But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.

I think I can safely conclude that there is not a lot to be said for playing chess while on Valium.

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together.