quotes you like about chess

"Now we appreciate that what affords us so much enjoyment in chess is really the same thing for all of us, be it the layman who sees nothing finer in chess than the sacrificial combination or be it the expert who marvels at the far-reaching scheme of the game. It is the triumph of the intellect and genius over lack of imagination; the triumph of personality over materialism" - Richard Reti - Modern Ideas in chess, page 69.

"The only thing chess players have in common is chess" Lodewijk Prins

e4, anything else is a mistake.........bobby fischer

Originally posted by lemondrop
e4, anything else is a mistake.........bobby fischer

Even if you are black? 😛

Originally posted by Sicilian Sausage
Even if you are black? 😛

Bobby was white.

"On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of lies; the merciless fact, culmination in checkmate, contradicts the hypocrites." Emanuel Lasker

If You're Thinkin' About My Baby
It Don't Matter If You're Black Or White
Michael Jackson

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
"On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of lies; the merciless fact, culmination in checkmate, contradicts the hypocrites." Emanuel Lasker

Lasker never saw any of my games. 😛

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

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
“The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing;
the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing”
-Tartakover.

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 Kubrik

"… the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life." -- Charles Dickens

"When men lose against me, they always have a headache ... or things of that kind. I have never beaten a completely healthy man!" - Susan Polgar

Originally posted by Suzianne
"… the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life." -- Charles Dickens

What did he know (about love, anyhow)? He married his cousin, you know 😉

There are two quotes I remember:

1) "When I have White, I win because I am White; when I have Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov." - Bogolyubov

2) "The only mistake you make in chess is to underestimate your opponent." I'm not sure who said it, I read it on the internet ages ago, but I always remember it when wondering if I can get away with a move that relies on my opponent not noticing something.

“Castle early and often” (Rob Sillars)