Chess Quotes

"I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up"

"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"

Magnus Carlsen

"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, Actor

"Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess"

Viktor Korchnoi, Celebrity

"The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost"

Viktor Korchnoi, Celebrity

"She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited"

Kate Chopin, Author

"What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess"

Ryan Stiles, Actor

"If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story"

Rex Stout, Writer

"Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"Chess is mental torture"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"Chess first of all teaches you to be objective"

Alexander Alekhine, Celebrity

"It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"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"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory"

Max Euwe, Celebrity

"I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands"

Alexander Alekhine, Celebrity

"Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents"

Alexander Alekhine, Celebrity

"Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player"

Max Euwe, Celebrity

"I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess"

Dennis Miller, Comedian

"The America's Cup is like a chess game on water, with boats as the pieces and tactics as the moves"

Dennis Conner, Athlete

"I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any"

Maurice Ashley, Celebrity

"Chess is the gymnasium of the mind"

Adolf Anderssen, Celebrity

"Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time"

Solomon Burke, Musician

"Life's too short for chess"

Henry James Byron, Dramatist

"Life's to short for chess"

Henry James Byron, Dramatist

"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, Celebrity

"I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son"

John Turturro, Actor

"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, Novelist

"Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess"

Eric Bogosian, Actor

"The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him"

Bruno Schulz, Novelist

"Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future"

Maurice Ashley, Celebrity

"I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this"

John Harsanyi, Educator

"There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go"

Rainn Wilson, Actor

"Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you"

Ron Livingston, Actor

"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, Author

"I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position"

Marcel Duchamp, Artist

"Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another"

Marcel Duchamp, Artist

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