Chess Quotes - page 3

In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time. (Garry Kasparov)
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. View quote
Garry Kasparov
The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture. View quote
Garry Kasparov
It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system. View quote
Will Durant
They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat. View quote
Bobby Fischer
Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just "trusting in God" to give me the moves. View quote
Bobby Fischer
Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like. View quote
Bobby Fischer
All I want to do, ever, is play chess. View quote
Bobby Fischer
You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know. View quote
Bobby Fischer
Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they're going to know the truth when I do this book! View quote
Bobby Fischer
I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study (the Bible) an hour. You know, I was half out of my head-stoned almost. (Bobby Fischer)
I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing. View quote
Bobby Fischer
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 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 memorization and prearrangement like it is today. View quote
Bobby Fischer
Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion. View quote
Viswanathan Anand
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along. View quote
Terry Pratchett
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! View quote
Emanuel Lasker
He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess...the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leads to standstill or to anarchy. View quote
Emanuel Lasker
Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result...Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values. View quote
Emanuel Lasker
I love chess, but it's the height of decadence. View quote
Jennifer Shahade
Most chess books only sell a few thousand copies, and a book titled something like "Women in Chess” would sell even fewer. The idea with this title was to spread the book outside the competitive chess world. I'm interested in attracting readers who love chess but play only casually, and feminists interested in male dominated fields. View quote
Jennifer Shahade
Tournament chess is not relaxing. It's stressful, even if you win. (Jennifer Shahade)
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another. View quote
Marcel Duchamp
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. View quote
Ashot Nadanian
When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport. View quote
Ashot Nadanian
Many have become Chess Masters, no one has become the Master of Chess. View quote
Siegbert Tarrasch