Chess Game Quotes

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves

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

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else; for, whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middlegame and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.

I love chess, and I didn't invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is 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. I'm really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.

When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'

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

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else.

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

It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all.

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

Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half

Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard

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

When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.

Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise them. It is because combinations are possible that Chess is more than a lifeless mathematical exercise. They are the poetry of the game; they are to Chess what melody is to music. They represent the triumph of mind over matter

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.

I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.

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

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.

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

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.

Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!

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

No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.

Tactics flow from a superior position

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

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?

A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player

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.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

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

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.

It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men

Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game.

Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares

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

The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.