Off the Wall Chess Quotes

"Chess is a good mistress but a bad master." - Gerald Abrahams (1907-1980)

"In chess there is a world of intellectual values." - Gerald Abrahams (1907-1980)

"Chess will always be the master of us all." - Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946)

"Of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable." - Assaic

"In chess, just as in life, today's bliss may be tomorrow's poison." - Assaic

"To have a knight planted in your game at K6 is worse than a rusty nail in your knee." - Efim Bogoljubow (1889-1952)

"Chess is the art of analysis." - Mikhail Botvinnik (1911-1995)

"Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic." - Mikhail Botvinnik (1911-1995)

"The essence of chess is thinking about what chess is." - David Bronstein (1924- )

"Life is too short for chess." - character from Henry J. Byron's play "Our Boys"

"The good player is always lucky." - Jose Capablanca (1888-1942)

"Chess is not for the timid." - Irving Chernev (1900-1981)

"Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general." - Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

"Not all artists may be chess players, but all chess players are artists." - Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

"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 (1887-1968)

"Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shakling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer." - Alburt Einstein (1879-1955)

"A man that will take back a move at chess will pick a pocket." - Richard Fenton (1837-1916)

"You can only get good at chess if you love the game." - Bobby Fischer (1943- )

"I like to make them squirm." - Bobby Fischer (1943- )

"If I win, I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not." - Bobby Fischer (1943- )

"Chess is life." - Bobby Fischer (1943- )

"Life is a kind of chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"You cannot play chess if you are kind-hearted." - French proverb

"Excellence at chess is one mark of a scheming mind." - Sherlock Holmes

"Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe." - Indian Proverb

"Chess is everything: art, science, and sport." - Anatoly Karpov (1951- )

"Chess is a test of wills." - Paul Keres (1916-1975)

"Chess is a cure for headaches." - John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)

"I often play a move I know how to refute." - Bent Larsen (1935- )

"On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long." - Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941)

"Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation." - Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924)

"The hardest part of chess is winning a won game." - Frank Marshall (1877-1944)

"Never make a good move too soon." - James Mason (1849-1905)

"It is impossible to win gracefully at chess." - Alan Milne (1882-1956)

"Help your pieces so they can help you." - Paul Morphy (1837-1884)

"The isolated pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard." - Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935)

"The loser is alwyas at fault." - Vasily Panov (1906-1973)

"Chess is the gymnasium of the mind." - Blaise Pascal

"The pawn is the soul of chess." - Francois-Andre Danican Philidor (1726-1795)

"Pawn endings are to chess what putting is to golf." - Cecil Purdy (1906-1979)

"Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance." - Richard Reti (1889-1929)

"The Queen's Gambit is like a piece of dead fish kept overlong on ice." - Tony Santasiere (1904-1977)

"Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people." - Nigel Short (1965- )

"Chess is a cold bath for the mind." - Sir John Simon

"Chess is a game of bad moves." - Andrew Soltis (1947- )

"Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack." - William Steinitz (1836-1900)

"Between the opening and endgame the gods have placed the middlegame." - Siegbert Tarrasch (1862-1934)

"Chess, like love, like music, has the powers to make men happy." - Siegbert Tarrasch (1862-1934)

"When you don't know what to do, wait for you opponent to get an idea; it is sure to be bad." - Siegbert Tarrasch (1862-1934)

"White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to think up the moves himself." - Siegbert Tarrasch (1862-1934)

"All chessplayers should have a hobby." - Savielly Tartakower (1887-1956)

"Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; strategey is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do." - Savielly Tartakower (1887-1956)

"The blunders are all there, waiting to be made." - Savielly Tartakower (1887-1956)

"The winner of a game is the one who has made the next to last blunder." - Savielly Tartakower (1887-1956)

"It is always better to sacrifice your opponent's men." - Savielly Tartakower (1887-1956)

"Chess is 99 percent tactics." - Richard Teichmann (1868-1925)

"Bad moves come in waves." - Bill Wall (1951- )

"A chess player who resigns gracefully never intended to win anyway." - Bill Wall (1951- )

"Chess players never die. They just lose their mates." - Bill Wall (1951- )

"The hardest chess position to win is stalemate." - Bill Wall (1951- )

"Don't eat beans and bananas before a chess match." - Bill Wall (1951- )

"There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess." - H.G. Wells (1886-1946)

"Chess is like marriage. You cannot have a mate without a check." - Brian Wood