Chessboard Quotes

• On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Survive
  • Hypocrisy
  • Chessboard

• On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Survive
  • Hypocrisy
  • Checkmate

• The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.

  

  Howard Staunton
  • White
  • Corner
  • Square

• Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the ties which link Chess with the human soul.

  

  Al-Masudi
  • Soul
  • Influences
  • Chessboard

• The center of the chessboard is a magnet, which pulls to itself all the pieces.

  

  Ashot Nadanian
  • Pieces
  • Magnet
  • Chessboard

• The center of the chessboard is a magnet, which pulls to itself all the pieces. Therefore the most beautiful and amazing moves, for me, are those with which a piece, counteracting the gravitational force of the center, suddenly fly to the edge of the board.

  

  Ashot Nadanian
  • Moves
  • Magnet
  • Gravitational Forces

• And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Writer
  • Meaning
  • Chooses