CHESS QUOTES IV

quotations about chess

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Chess is particularly the game of the unappreciated, who seek in play that success which life has denied them.

RICHARD RETI

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The hardest thing in chess is to win a won game.

MAX EUWE

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The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.

THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

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It's hard to understand why people who have enough time to play chess want to spend it playing chess.

EVAN ESAR

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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 PEREZ-REVERTE

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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

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

ERIC SYKES

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During a chess competition, a chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk.

ALEXANDER ALEKHINE

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Chess is as much a mystery as women.

CECIL J. S. PURDY

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Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

GEORGE STEINER

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The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.

SAVIELLY TARTAKOWER

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Now we appreciate that what affords us so much enjoyment in chess is really the same thing for all of us, be it for the layman who sees nothing finer in chess than the sacrificial combination or be it for the expert who marvels at the far-reaching scheme of a game. It is the triumph of the intellect and genius over the lack of imagination; the triumph of personality over materialism.

RICHARD RETI

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I often feel that chess is like a form of mental boxing, not only because the contenders tend to feel battered and bruised after the contest (in the case of chess it's more mental and emotional than physical) but also because you can play a great game for six or seven hours, and after those many hours of mental and emotional investment, lose your concentration for a vital moment and get knocked out at the end!

DANIEL GORMALLY

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What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded.

SAMUEL RESHEVSKY

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Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it.

VLADIMIR KRAMNIK

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One bad move nullifies forty good ones.

ISRAEL ALBERT HOROWITZ

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You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

BOBBY FISCHER

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Those persons who make light of the wooden puppets that run over the surface of the chess board should recollect that a frame of wires strung with wooden balls was the familiar companion of the earliest mathematicians, that the science of logarithms was perfected by means of wooden pegs and a board pierced with holes, and that Napoleon won his victories before his battles were fought, by sticking his map of Europe full of pins surmounted by divers colored balls of sealing-wax.

FRANKLIN K. YOUNG & EDWIN C. HOWELL

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There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world.

PIERRE MACORLAN

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In the game of chess we see illustrated the game of life and its vicissitudes--success and failure.

OPOIX

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