Best Chess Players Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The stupid, useless, good-for-nothing king. Can barely move one square, scurries into hiding behind the rook, and he's so, so easy to corner. A fraction of the queen's power, that's what he has. He is nothing, absolutely nothing, without his kingdom.”

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Author:Ali Hazelwood

“Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.”

Ifs Player Wonderful Mankind Pure Machines Prepared Chess Invention Former Operations Comparison Be Prepared Analogies Calculating Chess Players

Book:The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Source: The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

“To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.”

Source: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

“A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.”

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Author:Garry Kasparov

“A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them”

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Author:William Hazlitt

“I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.”

Matter Player Deserve Fortune Chess Honour Chess Players

Author:Mikhail Tal

“Bobby Fischer was hugely important for the American chess community because it put chess on the map - he made it possible for other chess players to make a living.”

Made Important Community Player Chess Made It Maps Chess Players Fischer

Author:Liz Garbus

“Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.”

Thinking Pieces Player Independent Crowds Chess Chess Players Islamic Wisdom Chess Pieces

Author:Ralph Charell

“I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I was 16 years old. In other sports, if you have been playing for seven years, you are not a young prodigy any more. You're one of the pros.”

Ifs World Years Has Beens Young Sports Player Seven Chess Seven Years Tournaments Chess Players Prodigies

Author:Magnus Carlsen

“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.”

Doe Reason Imagination Player Poet Mad Chess Insanity Orthodoxy Chess Players

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His favorite time of day is half past six in the evening, when he meets Mrs. Marsden's train at the station, as the latter returns from her day in London. On Sunday afternoons, rain or shine, Professor and Mrs. Marsden take a walk along The Backs, and treasure growing old together.”

“The Indians and Chinese have become brilliant chess professionals. They get on a plane and play all over the world. This has led to dramatic pressure on incomes. Nowadays, the best chess player in Argentina can no longer make a living playing chess.”

World Play Player Pressure Brilliant Chess Income Chinese Planes Dramatic Argentina Chess Players Playing Chess

Author:Kenneth Rogoff

“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.”

Ifs Different Helping Use Problem Seems Study Player Theory Easier Mathematics Chess Being True Branches Resolve Links Chess Players

Author:Viswanathan Anand

“The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.”

“It's the fault of the chess players themselves. I don't know what they used to be, but now they're not the most gentlemanly group. When it was a game played by the aristocrats it had more like you know dignity to it. When they used to have the clubs, like no women were allowed and everybody went in dressed in a suit, a tie, like gentlemen, you know. Now, kids come running in their sneakers. Even in the best chess club-and they got women in there. It's a social place and people are making noise, it's a madhouse.”

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Author:Bobby Fischer

“I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest chess player that could take random pieces of information and string them together into a scenario that was accurate. I never thought of him as a psychic at all. We need people like that.”

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Author:Lance Henriksen

“I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be in the one city where there was a sprouting chess team: Chennai.”

Country Bigs Deals Cities Player Happened Team Lucky Chess Big Deal Chess Players

Author:Viswanathan Anand

“I was a professional chess player in Romania, but only a small-time master. When I came to France, I continued playing chess for many years: I played tournaments in numerous countries with mixed results. I wrote and published a book - La Défense Alekhine and translated two others from Russian. I taught chess in schools; I earned more money through chess than through literature.”

Years Two Book Country School Literature Results Player Taught Masters Chess France More Money Tournaments Chess Players Playing Chess Romania Alekhine

Author:Dumitru Tepeneag

“Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of a wink, a self-portrait and not much more.”

Self Character Literature Player Chess Posts Portraits Pigeons Chess Players Self Portrait

Author:Dumitru Tepeneag

“All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out from the rest of the game and stirs one's admiration.”

Knows Games Player Victim Oneself Chess Combination Admiration Standing Out Chess Players

Book:The Art of Chess Combination

Source: The Art of Chess Combination

“It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething with a kaleidoscope of emotions.”

Looks May Two Emotion Player Possibility Sitting Chess Boards Actuality Calculating Chess Players Kaleidoscope Seething

Author:Shankarananda

“Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.”

Player Chess Fighter Exceptional Chess Players

Author:Garry Kasparov

“The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.”

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Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.”

Important Player Sacrifice Materials Elements Chess Compensation Chess Players

Author:Boris Spassky

“Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.”

Humans Facts Player Computer Chess Champion Beaten Formidable Chess Players

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have a unique ability of taking in a lot of information and remembering relevant bits. So, memory and mental stamina are the key attributes.”

Different Remember Bits Sports Memories Ability Player Information Keys Unique Chess Attributes Relevant Stamina Chess Players

Author:Viswanathan Anand

“Chess has given me a lot more than I could ask for. I have been able to feel special, travel the world and do what I truly enjoy. Moreover, chess players love being their own boss and hate having to wake up early!”

World Feels Has Beens Able Hate Asks Given Enjoy Player Special Wake Up Chess Boss Travel The World Up Early Chess Players

Author:Viswanathan Anand

“I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation.”

Knows Needs Games Know How Player Fit Balls Average Complicated Chess Preparation Exceed Calories Chess Players Ball Games

Author:Viswanathan Anand

“Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.”

“The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish.”

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Book:Catch-22: A Novel

Source: Catch-22: A Novel

“Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.”

Humanity Forget Player Goes On Discipline Angel Chess Chess Players Captivated

Book:Ficciones

Source: Ficciones

“Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.”

Trying Player Position Losing Chess Satan Castles Always Trying Bishops Chess Players

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.”

Mind May Littles Important Struggle Player Capacity Chess Undertakings Best Players Chess Players Christendom Proficiency

Book:Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories

Source: Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories

“These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.”

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Author:Kobe Bryant

“But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.”

Men Success Process Goal Player Creatures Chess Fickle Chess Players

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.”

Decision Lord Player Trouble Treats Very Good Chess Chess Players Playing Chess

Book:Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these four people (Antoshion and three other official 'minders') sent along to supervise us? With their meagre experience, all that thay did was interfere, more than ever before. And when they were needed, they weren't to be found.”

People World Should Three Found Politics Four Player Needed Chess Officials Trusted Interfere Chess Players

Author:Viktor Korchnoi

“A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.”

Giving Doe Politics Numbers Player Giving Up Opposites Chess Soviet Diplomats Pawns Chess Players

Author:Arthur Dean

“Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of move. Thus, the longer the automaton went on playing game, the more experienced it would become by the accumulation of experimental results. Such a machine precisely represents the acquirement of experience by our nervous organization.”

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Author:William Stanley Jevons

“Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.”

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“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.”

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Book:The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin

Source: The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin

“You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.”

May Motivation Games Winning Loses Player Becoming Losing Chess Chess Game Chess Players

Author:Jose Raul Capablanca

“Most players ... do not like losing, and consider defeat as something shameful. This is a wrong attitude. Those who wish to perfect themselves must regard their losses as lessons and learn from them what sorts of things to avoid in the future.”

Wish Loss Perfect Attitude Player Lessons Losing Regard Defeat Chess Shameful Chess Players Wrong Attitude

Author:Jose Raul Capablanca

“When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties - before he died in the early forties. They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.”

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Author:Bobby Fischer

“I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!”

Has Beens Known Player Genius Chess Chess Players Capablanca

Author:Emanuel Lasker

“One interesting indication of Capablanca's greatness is that to non-chess players his name was better known than the names of all other chess masters together! This was due partly to his engaging personality and distinguished appearance: he was one of those exceptional people who at once stand out in a crowd.”

Source: The Immortal Games of Capablanca

“Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple, and then play with such brilliance in the middlegame that the game was decided - even though his ooponent didn't always know it - before they arrived at the ending.”

Knows Play Games Simple Player Decided Chess Tricks Opening Brilliance Chess Players Endgame Capablanca

Author:Bobby Fischer

“Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.”

Firsts Language Player Talent Chess Chess Players Fluent

Author:Viswanathan Anand

“When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged with energy - as Faraday saw the stresses surrounding magnets and currents as curves in space; or as Van Gogh saw vortices in the skies of Provence.”

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Author:Arthur Koestler

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