Top 191 Chess Quotes

No, I’ve never had a job other than being a chess player.

My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

A powerful studio boss doesn’t want to be bested by a woman, even in chess. And a successful agent steps on a lot of toes. You lose actors jobs so you can get them for your own clients.

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

My characters aren’t chess pieces. I don’t move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.

Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition. Mostly, I’m interested in doing real sports.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

Chess can open up a kid’s brain, and develop it in a playful creative way. They can learn playfully about creative, strategic, and logical thinking, and quick problem-solving.

When I saw ‘Chess’ in London, I thought it was horrible. It was so static. People were coming down front and just facing the audience, singing.

I hope ‘Chess’ will hit the big screen. It seems a natural to me. Good venues, tunes, and politics.

It’s less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.

After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired.

Obviously, in football you can study somebody, but at the same time, once you get out there, I think there’s just a natural kind of feel for where you think guys might be or where they’re going to go and knowing beforehand what’s going to happen. It’s just like chess.

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

In chess you try to do your best, but there are instances where you make mistakes or you try and take risks that you shouldn’t. And I think losing games is a good thing, because you learn more from when you lose than when you win.

For the moment, I am more focused on classical chess rather than rapid and blitz, as I am hoping to make my move in the classical World championship cycle.

It’s certainly an honor to have kids who are looking up to me, but at the same time, I’m just trying to do what I can to raise the profile of chess.

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

I play golf, and I play chess, and sometimes I go to the gym. On the airplane or between acts when I do the performance, I play Candy Crush to forget what happens around me, just to be alone, not thinking… You need to clear your brain.

I grew up with a father who taught me chess at the age of 6 or 7. He’d always beat me. Of course. I was a kid of 6 or 7. After he won, he’d look at me and say, ‘It’s good to be king.’ And then he’d say, ‘But you know what’s even better? To rule the world.’

Here in Italy, football is more like a chess game. You have to think about every move.

Chess is a game where all different sorts of people can come together, not a game in which people are divided because of their religion or country of origin.

My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world’s map, to make it part of the world’s geography again.

A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn’t geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It’s a drawing; it’s a mechanical reality.

Football is a bit like chess: it’s not just the piece being moved that matters; it’s also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.

Because of the Internet, chess is not about your nationality or your background. Anyone can get good now.

In Kansas I have a chess school.

The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me.

The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It’s the mental toughness.

Political analysis is full of chess metaphors, reflecting an old tradition of seeing games as models of physical and social reality.

I am very lucky in my team. They sit opposite me, and I get to see them every day sitting there staring at the seating chart, not doing much. It is almost like a chess game.

The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.

Being a young parent, you can play cricket, football, and I can play chess with my son. In fact, he plays the piano better than I do.

Once you’re a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can’t get it completely out of your head.

There’s a popular concept of ‘intelligence’ as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that ‘it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.’ But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

I started going to chess clubs when I was in fourth grade. From fourth grade to seventh grade, I was in chess club.

And maybe some people do it too much, are too selfish and concentrated on chess. But I think that in all professions you can find a lot of people like that.

When we were playing chess in the house, she would never let me win until I was good enough to beat her. It was always a competition. She was also always there for me. She was a very caring, loving mom, and the sacrifices she made to allow me to get to where I am today, I’ll be forever in debt.

We’ve seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We’ve seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

Chess demolishes differences. It’s a language of different generations.

It’s easy to reach a certain level with chess, but it’s very hard to reach the next level.

When I was born, I lived with my dad for two years. I was always watching him on a tennis court as a kid, he was a fanatic. Boris Becker would come to the house and play chess.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess.

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.

Each outing is its own game. You roll on your game plan. It is a different chess match each time you go out there. I just try to be prepared.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it’s not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It’s more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

If, in our first match for the world champion’s title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all.

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

I love the chess game that I do on ‘Suits.’ I just love every bit of it and that I get to do it.

In the barber shop you start playing checkers, and eventually you want to learn how to play chess. The pieces look a little more interesting. You’re doing more things. I’m pretty good at it.

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.

Television is like speed chess, as you have no time and no money. It is like trying to play Grandmaster chess with a 20 minute timer. The rewards are great, though, as it moves faster and you get to see the finished results much quicker.

Chess is mental torture.

In chess, computers show that what we call ‘strategy’ is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters.

I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix’s vault on this film. And I’ve taken my wand and I’ve got my cloak.