Quotes on Chess

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
-Johann von Goethe

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Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
-Terry Pratchett

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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

Originally posted by MissOleum
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
-Johann von Goethe

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Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
-Terry Pratchett

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You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand tremble ...[text shortened]... whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
-Stanley Kubrick

"It is always better to sacrifice your opponent's men."
Savielly Tartakower

"The pin is mightier than the sword."
Reinfeld

"Chess is 1% genius and 99% perspiration"
-I forgot 😞

You are making it up.:

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration".
Thomas Alfa Edison.

No I am not making it up...I read it in a book.

I am familiar with the Edison quote and this quote is obviously a spin-off of that.

"A bad day of Chess is better than any good day at work"

-Anonymous

From Seadevils' profile; Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever - George Bernard Shaw

“Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.”
Viktor Korchnoi


“Chess is not for timid souls.”
Wilhelm Steinitz

I suck at chess...so what?

--duecer

"Some of you say, 'Joy is greater than sorrow,' and others say, 'Nay, sorrow is the greater.'
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed."

Kahlil Gibran

"I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves." -- Bobby Fischer

"Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact." -- Bobby Fischer

"It’s just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something." -- Bobby Fischer

"If you don't win, it’s not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game." -- Bobby Fischer

Originally posted by irontigran
"I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves." -- Bobby Fischer

"Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact." -- Bobby Fischer

"It’s just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something." -- Bobby Fischer

"If you don't win, it’s not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game." -- Bobby Fischer

Originally posted by yo its me
From Seadevils' profile; Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever - George Bernard Shaw

Originally posted by mochiron
“Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the
world Chess Championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility”
(Richard Dawkings)