Top Chess Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Chess quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Boris Spassky
I still hope to kill Fischer
- Boris Spassky
Collection: Chess
Image of Viswanathan Anand
Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it
- Viswanathan Anand
Collection: Chess
Image of Viktor Korchnoi
Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.
- Viktor Korchnoi
Collection: Chess
Image of Viktor Korchnoi
No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness
- Viktor Korchnoi
Collection: Chess
Image of Jose Raul Capablanca
There was a time in my life when I almost thought I could never lose a single duel of chess.
- Jose Raul Capablanca
Collection: Chess
Image of Jose Raul Capablanca
To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.
- Jose Raul Capablanca
Collection: Chess
Image of Susan Polgar
Chess is a miniature version of life.
- Susan Polgar
Collection: Chess
Image of Alexander Alekhine
Deux fous gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non!
- Alexander Alekhine
Collection: Chess
Image of Alexander Alekhine
A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.
- Alexander Alekhine
Collection: Chess
Image of Alexander Alekhine
During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.
- Alexander Alekhine
Collection: Chess
Image of Savielly Tartakower
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.
- Savielly Tartakower
Collection: Chess
Image of Savielly Tartakower
Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.
- Savielly Tartakower
Collection: Chess
Image of Aron Nimzowitsch
The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard
- Aron Nimzowitsch
Collection: Chess
Image of Aron Nimzowitsch
No pawn exchanges, no file-opening, no attack.
- Aron Nimzowitsch
Collection: Chess
Image of Aron Nimzowitsch
Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.
- Aron Nimzowitsch
Collection: Chess
Image of Alexander Kotov
Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!
- Alexander Kotov
Collection: Chess
Image of Paul Keres
In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody
- Paul Keres
Collection: Chess
Image of Paul Keres
Chess is a test of wills.
- Paul Keres
Collection: Chess
Image of Georg Kieninger
Dazzling combinations are for the many, shifting wood is for the few
- Georg Kieninger
Collection: Chess
Image of Lawrence Day
Chess is a meritocracy.
- Lawrence Day
Collection: Chess
Image of Andrew Soltis
Chess is 99 percent calculation.
- Andrew Soltis
Collection: Chess
Image of Fred Reinfeld
But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one.
- Fred Reinfeld
Collection: Chess
Image of Paul Morphy
I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.
- Paul Morphy
Collection: Chess
Image of Paul Morphy
Checkers is for tramps
- Paul Morphy
Collection: Chess
Image of Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
A defeatist spirit must inevitably lead to disaster.
- Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Collection: Chess
Image of Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
It has been stated that a characteristic mark of a combination is surprise; surprise for the defender, not for the assailant, since otherwise the combination will probably be unsound.
- Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Collection: Chess
Image of Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
A pawn, when separated from his fellows, will seldom or never make a fortune.
- Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
Collection: Chess
Image of Samuel Reshevsky
The only good Rook is a working Rook!
- Samuel Reshevsky
Collection: Chess
Image of Vasily Smyslov
The Ruy Lopez occupied a constant place in my opening repertoire. In it is reflected the classical interpretation of the problem of the centre.
- Vasily Smyslov
Collection: Chess
Image of Irving Chernev
Chess is not for the timid.
- Irving Chernev
Collection: Chess
Image of Mikhail Tal
I'd like to always be romantic in chess. Sadly, this doesn't always work like that.
- Mikhail Tal
Collection: Chess
Image of Rick Kennedy
Pawns are born free, yet they are everywhere in chains
- Rick Kennedy
Collection: Chess
Image of Reuben Fine
I'd rather have a Pawn than a finger
- Reuben Fine
Collection: Chess
Image of Salo Flohr
Is Bobby Fischer quite sane?
- Salo Flohr
Collection: Chess
Image of Miguel Najdorf
Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone
- Miguel Najdorf
Collection: Chess
Image of Jennifer Shahade
I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.
- Jennifer Shahade
Collection: Chess
Image of Walter Browne
Chess is a natural cerebral high.
- Walter Browne
Collection: Chess
Image of Mikhail Botvinnik
Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned.
- Mikhail Botvinnik
Collection: Chess
Image of John van der Wiel
When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic
- John van der Wiel
Collection: Chess
Image of Mike Goodall
Spassky will not be psyched out by Fischer
- Mike Goodall
Collection: Chess
Image of Roman Dzindzichashvili
Now I have the pawn and the compensation.
- Roman Dzindzichashvili
Collection: Chess
Image of Yuri Averbakh
Botvinnik was a killer in chess.
- Yuri Averbakh
Collection: Chess
Image of Raymond Keene
Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician.
- Raymond Keene
Collection: Chess
Image of Patrick Wolff
Chess is for everybody.
- Patrick Wolff
Collection: Chess
Image of Tony Miles
Chess is most certainly not my life.
- Tony Miles
Collection: Chess
Image of Leonid Shamkovich
The endgame is an arena in which miraculous escapes are not uncommon.
- Leonid Shamkovich
Collection: Chess
Image of Jon Speelman
...the initial position is decisive Zugzwang.
- Jon Speelman
Collection: Chess
Image of George Koltanowski
Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess
- George Koltanowski
Collection: Chess
Image of Adolf Anderssen
Attack! Always Attack!
- Adolf Anderssen
Collection: Chess