Chess Quotes

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. (Alexander Alekhine)
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands. View quote
Alexander Alekhine
Combination is a soul of chess. View quote
Alexander Alekhine
Chess is not only knowledge and logic. View quote
Alexander Alekhine
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy. View quote
Siegbert Tarrasch
In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness. View quote
Savielly Tartakower
Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. View quote
Raymond Chandler
Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess. View quote
Garry Kasparov
Chess is the gymnasium of the mind. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess. (Felix Frankfurter)
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. View quote
Emo Philips
I failed to make the chess team because of my height. View quote
Woody Allen
Chess is intellectual gymnastics. View quote
Wilhelm Steinitz
I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly. View quote
Magnus Carlsen
Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents. View quote
Alexander Alekhine
I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future. View quote
Maurice Ashley
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to. (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people. View quote
Nigel Short
That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one. View quote
Bobby Fischer
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. View quote
George Steiner
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess. View quote
George Steiner