Top Chess Quotes by Quotes And Quotes Blog

Top Chess Quotes By Quotes And Quotes Blog

“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 all about maintaining coherent strategies. It’s about not giving up when the enemy destroys one plan but to immediately come up with the next. A game isn’t won and lost at the point when the king is finally cornered. The game's sealed when a player gives up having any strategy at all. When his soldiers are all scattered, they have no common cause, and they move one piece at a time, that’s when you’ve lost.”

― Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills 

“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

“When you see a good move, look for a better one”

― Emanuel Lasker 

“Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.”

― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Flanders Panel

“A queen
offers her hand to be kissed,
& can form it into a fist
while smiling the whole damn time.”

― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.”

― William Hazlitt, Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners

“Pawns are such fascinating pieces, too...So small, almost insignificant, and yet--they can depose kings. Don't you find that interesting?”

― Lavie Tidhar, The Bookman

“The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.”

― Emanuel Lasker     

“I believe that, not only in chess, but in life in general, people place too much stock in ratings – they pay attention to which TV shows have the highest ratings, how many friends they have on Facebook, and it’s funny. The best shows often have low ratings and it is impossible to have thousands of real friends.”

― Boris Gelfand  

  

“Chess, like love, is infectious at any age - Salo Flohr”

― Irving Chernev, The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played

“Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.”

― Garry Kasparov   

“Remember that in chess, it's only the square you land on that matters.”

― Bill Robertie, Beginning Chess Play  

“As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.”

― Viktor Korchnoi, My Best Games

 “In life, as in chess, it is always better to analyze one's motives and intentions.”

― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

“I learned about opening moves and why it's important to control the center early on; the shortest distance between two points is straight down the middle.”

― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club  

“All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.”

― Bobby Fischer 

“The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.”

― H.G. Wells 

 “You have good instincts,trust them. Thinking through every step is fine if you're playing chess, but this isn't chess.”

― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“The art of chess is in knowing which is the most valuable piece in play, then having the courage to sacrifice it for the win.”

― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys