Chess Quotes - page 2

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. (Marcel Duchamp)
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs. View quote
Eric Allin Cornell
It [chess] is eminently and emphatically the philosopher's game. View quote
Paul Morphy
I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person. View quote
Magnus Carlsen
I study chess eight hours a day, on principle. View quote
Alexander Alekhine
Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me. View quote
Anatoly Karpov
Football is like chess, only without the dice. View quote
Lukas Podolski
Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science. View quote
Yann Martel
In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this. View quote
Vladimir Kramnik
Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways. (Vladimir Kramnik)
I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation. View quote
Vladimir Kramnik
I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing. View quote
Vladimir Kramnik
Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation. View quote
Boris Spassky
Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though. View quote
Boris Spassky
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. View quote
Boris Spassky
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. View quote
G. H. Hardy
Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics. View quote
G. H. Hardy
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost. View quote
Viktor Korchnoi
Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess. View quote
Viktor Korchnoi
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory. (Douglass North)
These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess. View quote
Kobe Bryant
In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute. View quote
Garry Kasparov
Chess is mental torture. View quote
Garry Kasparov
Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature. View quote
Garry Kasparov