Chess Quotes - page 4

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess. (Siegbert Tarrasch)

Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player.

Siegbert Tarrasch

Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies, its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys -if not the greatest one- of human existence. It is not everyone who can write a play, or build a bridge, or even make a good joke. But in chess everyone can, everyone must, be intellectually productive and so can share in this select delight. I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity for the man who has no knowledge of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

Siegbert Tarrasch

In chess or in football, the tactic that proves most effective is soon the one that people learn easily to block. Every innovation in attack is soon countered by another in defence.

Matt Ridley

The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets.

Robert Shea

Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, "Here! Have them all!

Sophie Kinsella

In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.

Vasily Smyslov

No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work of art, if these qualities do not lead to the main goal - the search for truth.

Vasily Smyslov

I have frequently stated that I regard chess as an art form, where creativity prevails over other factors.

Vasily Smyslov

You know, even more than playing chess, I dislike dealing with self-righteous chess players.

Algis Budrys

It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old. (Alison Gopnik)

Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion.

Alfred Binet

Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.

Peter Mayhew

A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

Anna Kendrick

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

Arnon Goldfinger

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

Al Leiter

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it. (Al Leiter)

I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.

Christopher Meloni

But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.

Dorothy Dunnett

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

Eric Allin Cornell

I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.

Graydon Carter

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