Chess quotes

CHESS QUOTES

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.” - Seneca

The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem… I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.” -Marcel Duchamp

Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead, vigilance…by having to keep watch over the whole chessboard…caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves…and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life, that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hope for a change for the better, and steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.” - Benjamin Franklin, “The morals of chess”, 1779

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.” - Anatol Rapoport

In life, as in Chess, one’s own Pawns block one’s way. A man’s very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him” - Charles Buxton

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.” - Stanley Kubrick

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer” -Albert Einstein

Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.” - Herman Hesse

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.” -Thomas Henry Huxley

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events” -Benjamin Franklin

The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake” -Savielly Tartakover

Life is like a game of Chess, changing with each move” - Chinese proverb

Openings teach you openings. Endgames teach you chess!” - Stephan Gerzadowicz

When the Chess game is over, the Pawn and the King go back to the same box” - Irish saying

A Chess game is a dialogue, a conversation between a player and his opponent. Each move by the opponent may contain threats or be a blunder, but a player cannot defend against threats or take advantage of blunders if he does not first ask himself: What is my opponent planning after each move?” - Bruce A. Moon

A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third… when you know you’re going to lose!” - Savielly Tartakower

Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don’t have this when you play a computer. I can’t confuse it” -Judith Polgar

Human affairs are like a Chess game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players” - Hung Tzu Ch’eng

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind” - Blaise Pascal

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you’re in trouble” -Stanley Kubrick

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of Chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved” - Soren Kierkegaard

When asked, -How is that you pick better moves than your opponents?, I responded: I’m very glad you asked me that, because, as it happens, there is a very simple answer. I think up my own moves, and I make my opponent think up his”- Alexander Alekhine

The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing” - Savielly Tartakover

In Chess, just as in life, today’s bliss may be tomorrow’s poison” - Assaic

Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self image and self esteem” - Saudin Robovic