Chess Game Quotes

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! ~ Savielly Tartakower

Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster. ~ Dave Barry

I like the moment when I break a man's ego ~ Bobby Fischer

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

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

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess. ~ Felix Frankfurter

Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game ~ Siegbert Tarrasch

It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan ~ Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

And so the argument was begun, progressing more in the silences than in the speeches, like a chess game played by mail. ~ Stephen King

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

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ...
It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow. ~ Stefan Zweig

American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is one of the rules of the game, without which the game could not continue. I doubt anyone, no matter how sharp and sharp-tongued, could succeed in getting across to high school students how vital an acute mind is for just keeping a grip on one's life and earnings in our mendacious politics and economics. No wonder our school system is devoutly dedicated to demoralizing and blunting such minds. ~ Kenny Smith

Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents ~ Yuri Balashov

Earlier in my career, I never thought of boxing as a chess game, but I confirm that they are, in fact, very similar. You can plan your fights and strategy just like you would in chess. ~ Wladimir Klitschko

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

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game. ~ Paolo Bacigalupi

The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling. ~ Amber Benson

It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men ~ Savielly Tartakower

We are navigating through the unconscious, and this brings us to the occult, something hidden, secret and "difficult to understand." When things bog down, it is time for something else. Therapists need to have a variety of methods and perspectives ready. For example, dysfunctional families create a lot of confusion, havoc and pain. Interlopers, straw men and false gods have usurped the soul's central position - and oftentimes therapists have a chess game on their hands. ~ Stephen Poplin

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days. ~ Anna Kendrick

No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work of art, if these qualities do not lead to the main goal - the search for truth. ~ Vasily Smyslov

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

Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not. ~ Daniel Craig

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

Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to ... When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move. ~ Ray Bradbury

She has gathered that the man in the grey suit whom her father called Alexander also has a student, and there will be some sort of game.
"Like chess?" she asks once.
"No," her father says. "Not like chess. ~ Erin Morgenstern

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. ~ Seneca The Younger

Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know. ~ Tom Cruise

After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game ~ Howard Staunton

I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth game, I wasn't feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game? ~ Siegbert Tarrasch

Every year is a chess game. New Year is a new chess game! You make the right moves, you win the game! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I love chess, and I didnt invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, or really its dead. A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. Im really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavour. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so its not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today. ~ Bobby Fischer

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

For 'Inhuman,' it's a 'chess game' series. You have a lot of pieces moving different ways at once, and it's about what they do on their own and what happens when they collide into one another. It's about long-range planning, new character creation, and trying to really build things. ~ Charles Soule

I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore. ~ Garry Kasparov

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

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game ~ Siegbert Tarrasch

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

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

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

So our chess game begins tonight, Duchess. At eleven o'clock. I will give you one hour to try to win, blindfolded or no." His teeth showed very white when he smiled. "And then I shall win."
Jemma sniffed and turned up her nose. "Pride goeth before a fall, Duke."
"You will fall before me," he said, his smile a blatant challenge. "Backwards. ~ Eloisa James

Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley. ~ Budd Schulberg

Everything I was doing was like this chess game - full of second guesses, indecision, waiting. ~ Heather Demetrios

Grandmaster games are said to begin with novelty, which is the first move of the game that exits the book. It could be the fifth, it could be the thirty-fifth. We think about a chess game as beginning with move one and ending with checkmate. But this is not the case. The games begins when it gets out of book, and it end when it goes into book..And this is why Game 6 [between Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue] didn't count ... Tripping and falling into a well on your way to the field of battle is not the same thing as dying in it ... Deep Blue is only itself out of book; prior to that it is nothing. Just the ghosts of the game itself. ~ Brian Christian

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. ~ Emanuel Lasker

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

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves ~ Bobby Fischer

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

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible. ~ Dave Barry

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways. ~ Vladimir Kramnik

The hardest game to win is a won game ~ Emanuel Lasker

Life's too short for chess. ~ Henry James Byron

I'm the Pawn of chess game, whose aim is not to protect the King only but to become the Conqueror. ~ Samar Sudha

Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play. ~ Junior Seau

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

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this. ~ John Harsanyi

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

Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure; if they obstruct it, they are characterized as simply villainous or cowardly. Hence every typical character ... tends to have his moral opposite confronting him, like black and white pieces in a chess game. ~ Northrop Frye

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

Life is too short for chess. ~ Lord Byron

Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all. ~ Mikhail Chigorin

I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation. ~ Viswanathan Anand

...why did you stick with me?"

"That's easy, Alice," he said. His amber eyes melted into hers. "It's the first rule of chess: always protect your queen. ~ J.M. Sullivan

Give me a good game-day party on Sunday afternoon and I'll show up, but knowing the intricate details about what was happening on the field had no interest for me. And I told that to my pal, Johnny. He was raving about a game, and I said that it seemed to me that 'every play was a few seconds of incomprehensible frenetic activity, followed by a minute and a half of standing around.' And he said, "Man, every single play is an entire chess game played out in six seconds." I didn't play chess, but I got the idea. The thought of a battle for territory being played both physically and strategically fascinated me. That was war, right? And if the game was war, then each play was a battle. ~ Gilbert Klein

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 ~ Siegbert Tarrasch

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

I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game. ~ Jenny Frost

I failed to make the chess team because of my height. ~ Woody Allen

Chess is life and every game is like a new life. ~ Eduard Gufeld

Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares ~ Miguel Najdorf

Remy you're my king." I hug him hard. "There's no chess game for me without you. ~ Katy Evans

I think it was a game to both of you, a real life chess game. Every move you made he countered. In order to get his king, you sacrificed your queen, a bold move. One I believe will work. But at what cost? ~ Aleatha Romig

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

Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to learn to be able to do ~ Maurice Ashley

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess ~ Siegbert Tarrasch

Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game ~ Wilhelm Steinitz

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

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

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine ~ Mikhail Tal

The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. ~ Thomas Huxley

We move like the chess game, first the white... then the black... the moves are too fast so far it's difficult to see it. But it's logical, isn't it? ~ Deyth Banger

His life was forever a chess game played on a roulette wheel. He'd had to take precise, informed, ball-dropping gambles to get where he'd been. ~ Debra Anastasia

I am the best player in the world and I am here to prove it ~ Bobby Fischer

When may did so, he found every cup and saucer, plate, vase, and bowl standing arranged across the floor like pieces in a scaled-up chess game.
"The Whitstable family tree," Bryant explained, entering and setting down his tea tray. "It's the only way I could get it sorted out in my head. I had to see them properly laid out, who was descended from whom." He pointed to a milk jug. "Daisy Whitstable is bottom left-hand corner, by the fireguard. Next to her is the egg cup, brother Tarquin ... Now, pass me Marion and Alfred Whitstable over there."
"What's their significance?"
"We need them to drink out of. ~ Christopher Fowler

Being a part of the Mafia was like being in a chess game where you had no idea if you were the queen or a pawn, until it was too late, until you lost the entire game or until you won. ~ Rachel Van Dyken

Life, is a chess game you win or loose, but just keep playing. ~ Auliq Ice

If I had wanted to be a pawn in a game, I would have taken up chess... ~ Virginia Alison

A relationship is a game of chess. ~ Sophie Kinsella

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. ~ Michael Birch

I felt that chess ... is a science in the form of a game ... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist. ~ Bobby Fischer

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

An aspiring writer could be forgiven for thinking that learning to write is like negotiating an obstacle course in boot camp, with a sergeant barking at you for every errant footfall. Why not think of it instead as a form of pleasurable mastery, like cooking or photography? Perfecting the craft is a lifelong calling, and mistakes are part of the game. Though the quest for improvement may be informed by lessons and honed by practice, it must first be kindled by a delight in the best work of the masters and a desire to approach their excellence. ~ Steven Pinker

I never have heard somebody talking about games which are educationable or with logic like chess for example. Nobody watch it from the people which watch football and are good at math. Why they don't do it?? ~ Deyth Banger

Women are playing [hockey] because they love it, not because they're trying to be a woman in a man's game. ~ Cammi Granato

There was a time when all the actors were saying, 'We should get residuals on videogames.' I just kept going, 'You don't have any idea what goes into making a game, do you?' ~ Nolan North

The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person's soul, into their being, before they can effect change. ~ Donald Miller

A game is where you win and lose, and both are part of it. When there is more chance of losing, it is more charming. The game has value when it is tough. So some little problems that come in life are part of the whole game. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

You only fail if you don't finish the game. If you finish you win. You have to measure what you started out with by what you overcome. ~ Mike Webster

They suffered with his death and she - she suffered with their reaction to it. ~ Haidji

Needing and getting don't always go together. ~ Rachel Spangler