Chess Quotes

• 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.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Player
  • Sometimes
  • Unexpected

• Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

  

  Nigel Short
  • Kill
  • Chess
  • Ruthless

• I don't know whether computers are improving the style of play, I know they are changing it. Chess has become a different game, one could say that computers have changed the world of chess. That is pretty clear.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • World
  • Different
  • Style

• Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have been around during the fervor of the match in Reykjavik and the rise of Bobby Fischer, so those two things conspired to pique my interest.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Chess

• Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Education
  • Judging
  • Memorized

• I was still too weak to understand his chess ideas at that time but I remember being covered in smoke.

  

  Alexei Shirov
  • Ideas
  • Understand
  • Chess

• By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Fight
  • Human Nature
  • Enthusiasts

• Chess is life and every game is like a new life.

  

  Eduard Gufeld
  • Life
  • Game
  • Chess

• Chess is not something that drives people mad; it is something that keeps mad people sane.

  

  William Hartston
  • People
  • Chess
  • Sane

• I play chess, but my past is checkered,

  

  Ka
  • Past
  • Play
  • Rap

• Look at the catastrophic record Vishy Anand has against Garry Kasparov. Kasparov managed to beat him almost everywhere they played, even though Vishy Anand has belonged to the absolute top players in the world for fifteen years. This difference cannot be explained purely in chess terms, there must have been some psychology.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • World
  • Player
  • Psychology

• Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary.

  

  Bent Larsen
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Profession

• When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Children
  • Games
  • Capablanca

• I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If we see one, we automatically look to see if it can be netted.

  

  Cecil Purdy
  • Looks
  • Position
  • Strategy

• Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

  

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte
  • Art
  • War
  • Murder

• The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Different
  • Player
  • Study

• I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.

  

  Eric Sykes
  • Champion
  • Chess
  • Salt

• Politics in Iran is not played like American football. It's played like chess. There are multiple moves. You're jumping ahead. And a lot of it is very subtle, and it catches you by surprise later on. So I don't want to go overboard on this.

  

  Gary Sick
  • Politics
  • Chess
  • Played

• Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the people who really enjoy chess are the dubs and the duffers, experts who have resigned their ambitions, those who play only for pastime, and, of course, the great fraternity of the kibbitzers.

  

  Alfred Kreymborg
  • Chess
  • Ambitions
  • Pastime

• In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move.

  

  Joshua Waitzkin
  • Best
  • Chess
  • Move

• Coaching secrets? I don't think I got any. The main "secret" - love for chess.

  

  Ashot Nadanian
  • Chess
  • Coaching
  • Secrets

• Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Lost
  • Feels
  • Chess

• I'll take my five positions per second any day, thank you

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Position
  • Chess
  • Five

• For me, chess is at the same time a game, a sport, a science and an art. And perhaps even more than that,. There is someting hard to explain to those who do not know the game well. One must first learn to play it correctly in order to savor its richness.

  

  Bent Larsen
  • Art
  • Game
  • Science

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