Radovid Chess Quotes

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

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

Every Chess master was once a beginner ~ Irving Chernev

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You want a fact???
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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

Demonstrate your connection with popular culture. You could use 'hashtag brilliant' throughout your essay to describe yourself. ~ Khristina Chess

Chess is a fathead and feudal game. ~ Georges Perec

A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess is art" is already inappropriate. The purpose of modern chess is to reach a result. ~ Alexander Morozevich

If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white. ~ Zenna Henderson

The correct way to play chess is to develop each and every piece (chess is a team game!), get your King safely castled, and only then begin more aggressive maneuvers. ~ Jeremy Silman

Botvinnik was a killer in chess. ~ Yuri Averbakh

Chess is most certainly not my life. ~ Tony Miles

The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix. ~ Vasily Smyslov

I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt. ~ Eric Sykes

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost. ~ Viktor Korchnoi

Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd go down to the Four Continents bookstore and he'd buy any Russian chess material he could get his hands on. He'd learned enough Russian to get the gist of prose and he just absorbed the chess part. ~ Ronald Gross

The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches. ~ Anatoly Karpov

If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess. ~ Paul Tudor Jones

I used to play a lot of chess and competitive chess and study chess and as you get to the grandmasters and learn their styles when you start copying their games like the way they express themselves through ... The way Kasparov or Bobby Fischer expresses themselves through a game of chess is it's astonishing. You can show a chess master one of their games and they'll say "Yeah, that is done by that player." ~ Rainn Wilson

Chess960 is healthy and good for your chess. If you get into it and not just move the pieces to achieve known positions it really improves your chess vision. ~ Levon Aronian

Chess is not for the timid. ~ Irving Chernev

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

I began to realize that I could go wherever and whenever I dreamed. ~ Chess Desalls

Most Debunkers spent their money on actual things, rather than just buying anything they could swallow, smoke or snort. Unlike Chess. ~ Stacia Kane

I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write ... ~ Wilhelm Steinitz

In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent. ~ Vasily Smyslov

FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title. ~ Bobby Fischer

Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated. ~ Karl Kraus

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect. ~ Che Guevara

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

Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels. ~ Jorge Luis Borges

Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary. ~ Jose Raul Capablanca