Chess Quotes - page 5

Life's too short for chess. (Henry James Byron)
We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer. View quote
Hod Lipson
Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you. View quote
Ron Livingston
Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time. View quote
Solomon Burke
Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage. View quote
Steve Sabol
In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber. View quote
Yuliya Snigir
Chess is not for timid souls. View quote
Wilhelm Steinitz
Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game. View quote
Wilhelm Steinitz
Sheriff Bart: Since I am your host and you are my guest what are your hobbies? What do you like to do in your free time? Jim "The Waco Kid": Oh you know, play chess...screw. Sheriff Bart: Well let's play chess! View quote
Mel Brooks
It [chess] is not only the most delightful and scientific, but the most moral of amusements. View quote
Paul Morphy
Paul Morphy was the greatest chess player that ever lived. Every student of the game, who has delved into the stories of the past, realizes that no one ever was so far superior to the players of his time, or ever defeated his opponents with such ease, and no one ever offered knight odds to the men who considered themselves his equal. (Paul Morphy)
Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more serious avocations. View quote
Paul Morphy
After the passage of a century, Morphy still remains the most glamorous figure that has ever appeared in the chess world. View quote
Paul Morphy
I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away. It is, to be sure, a most exhilarating sport, but it is only a sport; and it is not to be wondered at that such as have been passionately addicted to the charming pastime should one day ask themselves whether sober reason does not advise its utter dereliction. View quote
Paul Morphy
Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy. View quote
Paul Morphy
It has been truly said that Morphy was at once the Caesar and the Napoleon of chess. He revolutionized chess. He brought life and dash and beauty into the game at a time when an age of dullness was about to set in and he did this at a stroke. Then he quit forever. Only two years from the beginning to the end. The negotiations for some modern matches have taken that long! View quote
Paul Morphy
Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head. View quote
Magnus Carlsen
One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach. View quote
Magnus Carlsen
Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else. View quote
Magnus Carlsen
I'm not Machiavellian. I don't play chess with my life, you know. I respond in the moment, which is what makes me a good actor. It makes me, sometimes, a good interview subject but it also makes me a very easy target. View quote
Russell Crowe
I don't play chess with my life, ya' know. (Russell Crowe)
With his death, we have lost a very great chess genius whose like we'll never see again. View quote
Alexander Alekhine
Chess is my life, but my life is not chess. View quote
Anatoly Karpov
After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired. View quote
Anatoly Karpov
People knew about 110 years of chess history. Nowadays, nobody is able to tell you the name of the world champion of 2000. View quote
Anatoly Karpov