Chess Quotes- Your Favorites

I like so many. Lets begin.

I like the moment when I break a man's ego. – Bobby Fischer

Originally posted by CheckYou
I like so many. Lets begin.

I like the moment when I break a man's ego. – Bobby Fischer

"Checkmate." . . . me 😀

“The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov) doesn't have a
clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession”
(Mikhail Botvinnik)

“We don't really know how the game was invented, though there are
suspicions. As soon as we discover the culprits, we'll let you know”
(Bruce Pandolfini)

Frank: Umm...anyway, Queen takes pawn. OK?
HAL: Bishop takes Knight's pawn.
Frank: Hmm, that's a good move. Er...Rook to King One.
HAL: I'm sorry, Frank. I think you missed it. Queen to Bishop Three. Bishop takes
Queen. Knight takes Bishop. Mate.
Frank: Ah...Yeah, looks like you're right. I resign.
HAL: Thank you for a very enjoyable game.
Frank: Yeah. Thank you.

-2001:A Space Odyssey

“I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves”
(Bobby Fischer)
“Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events”
(Benjamin Franklin)
“You cannot play at Chess if you are kind-hearted”
(French Proverb)
“Chess is mental torture”
(Garry Kasparov)

Another i thought you would like CheckYou is:

“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)

In the game of chess, you can never let your adversary see your pieces.

-Zap Brannigan, Futurama

“Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; 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 hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.”



Benjamin Franklin

Over-the-board chess is the favorite of mortals; correspondence chess is the favorite of the gods.
– Eduard Dyckhoff

"I've never beaten a healthy opponent." - Bobby Fischer


I'm fairly certain someone else said it first, but I remember him saying it too.

Oh, and a note, HAL's game wasn't Checkmate. 😴

I read a quote once that went something like this:

"I win as white because I'm playing white. I win as black because I'm [insert his name]."

-[insert his name]

YOU FORKED ME AGAIN!!!!



one of my opponents.