Queens Gambit Chess Quotes

A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history and one which we cannot impress forcibly enough upon the young chess player. A beginner should avoid Queen's Gambit and French Defence and play open games instead! While he may not win as many games at first, he will in the long run be amply compensated by acquiring a thorough knowledge of the game ~ Richard Reti

It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss. ~ Anatoly Karpov

It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King's Gambit against a representative of the old chess guard. ~ David Bronstein

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game. ~ G.H. Hardy

A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending! ~ Bent Larsen

Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five. ~ David Bronstein

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

Chess programs don't play chess the way humans play chess. We don't really know how humans play chess, but one of the things we do is spot some opportunity on the chess board toward a move to capture the opponent's queen. ~ Stuart J. Russell

The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth ... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel, we with maturing experience leave off gambit playing and become interested in the less vivacious but withal more forceful manoeuvres of the position player. ~ Emanuel Lasker

In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force. ~ Bobby Fischer

Boris Vasilievich was the only top-class player of his generation who played gambits regularly and without fear ... Over a period of 30 years he did not lose a single game with the King's Gambit, and among those defeated were numerous strong players of all generations, from Averbakh, Bronstein and Fischer, to Seirawan. ~ Garry Kasparov

Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen. ~ John Rhys-Davies

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

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. ~ Ralph Charell

If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens. ~ Irving Chernev

Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards. ~ Jacob Aagaard

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

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

It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King. ~ Terry Pratchett

Every Chess master was once a beginner ~ Irving Chernev

We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P. ~ Walt Disney

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

Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles ~ Garry Kasparov

And whether consciously or not, you must be in many a heart enthroned: queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond, which bows itself, and will forever bow, before the myrtle crown, and the stainless scepter of womanhood. ~ John Ruskin

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. ~ William Golding

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common. ~ Magnus Carlsen

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. ~ Vladimir Kramnik

The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish. ~ Joseph Heller

I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books. ~ Garry Kasparov

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

I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty poor players. I used to know one of the world's leading mathematicians and whenever we played chess I had to give him the odds of a Queen to make matters more equal, and even then I always won. ~ Harry Golombek

The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture. ~ Garry Kasparov

A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover. ~ Savielly Tartakower

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

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. ~ Alexander Alekhine

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

Most of the gods throw dice but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out until too late that he's been using two queens all along. Fate wins. ~ Terry Pratchett

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

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

Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess. ~ Siegbert Tarrasch

Watching the season for me is about watching the chess matches. ~ Ray Lewis

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

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions. ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing. ~ Garry Kasparov

The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc. ~ Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

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

Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the world beyond ... But alas, you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest. ~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Chess you don't learn, chess you understand. ~ Viktor Korchnoi

Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves. ~ Anne Bronte

Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening. ~ Henry A. Kissinger

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

Thou mutters, Miss Putnam. Speak up."
Like she couldn't hear. She'd hear Chess if Chess ran to the other end of the room, covered her mouth with her hands, and whispered "Fuck you," but she couldn't hear Chess standing four feet away from her. ~ Stacia Kane

Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately ~ Mikhail Botvinnik

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position. (On giving up art to play chess) ~ Marcel Duchamp

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess ~ Bobby Fischer

I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general. ~ Viswanathan Anand

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again. ~ Alexander Alekhine

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

Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf ~ Cecil Purdy

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly. ~ Alexandra Kosteniuk

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

Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned. ~ Mikhail Botvinnik

Travelers aren't found. They're called. ~ Chess Desalls

A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without giving him the satisfaction of a lover. ~ Gregor Piatigorsky

Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of a wink, a self-portrait and not much more. ~ Dumitru Tepeneag

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

Her curiosity would be the end of them both. "Chess. They are playing chess," he said, his voice oddly husky. "Chess? I think you meant chest. Yes, he has his hand on her chest," she murmured. ~ Maya Rodale

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

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre. ~ Boris Spassky

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

Bobby Fischer was hugely important for the American chess community because it put chess on the map - he made it possible for other chess players to make a living. ~ Liz Garbus

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together. ~ Friedrich Schiller

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

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

Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners. ~ Bobby Fischer

The world is full of kings and queens. Who blinds your eyes, then steals your dreams. It's heaven and hell! ~ Black Sabbath

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

Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline ~ Mikhail Botvinnik

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

Life isn't always like Chess. But sometimes it is. In a really difficult game, queen leaves board at the end. The difference is, you call it sacrifice in Chess. ~ Heshan Udunuwara

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 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

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money ~ Benjamin Franklin

After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired. ~ Anatoly Karpov

Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage over the chess pragmatist, and that there can be no certainty in chess without analysis. I personally acquired these views from my sessions with Mikhail Botvinnik, and they laid the foundations of my chess-playing life. ~ Garry Kasparov

All kings and queens are not born of royal bloodlines. Some become royal because of what they do once they realize who they are ~ Pharrell Williams

I would never suggest to anyone that they drop school for chess. First of all even if you can make it in chess, your social skills need to be developed there. ~ Viswanathan Anand

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

Chess is eminently and emphatically the philospher's game. ~ Paul Morphy

Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people. ~ Boris Spassky

Relationships are chess for women," he said. "They can see the whole board, plan way ahead. They're the queens, after all. We're the kings, limited to one square in any direction, on defense for the whole fucking game. ~ Laura Lippman

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

Then you'll love chess. Chess is checkers on steroids. ~ Rick Yancey

Far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and online matches, there has been a mini-boom in chess interest among young people in many countries. ~ Kenneth Rogoff

Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly. ~ Ashot Nadanian

I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states. ~ John Henrik Clarke

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do. ~ Garry Kasparov

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities. ~ Viswanathan Anand

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I'm bad at math but good at chess, I beat the best guy on chess... so you make your own conclusions! ~ Deyth Banger