Chess Quotes

"its just a game"
-last words of a wise old pawn
7/20/06 12:02 -- 7/20/06 1:43
R.I.P.

Originally posted by james47
George: "Well, you got no place to go. I'll tell you what your problem is: You brought your queen out too fast. What do you think? She's one of these feminists looking to get out of the house? No, the queen is old fashioned... Likes to stay home. Cook. Take care of her man. Make sure he feels good." --From Seinfeld

Originally posted by NZDrifter
"Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever" - George Bernard Shaw

Lots of great quotes here. One of my favorite of many years standing is: "Chess is the royal waste of time."
As much as I love the game, this notion haunts me.

"Many people think chess is a game for geeks or nerds. But in fact, the coolest people I know play chess" - Yasser Seirawan in lecture

"Patzer sees check, patzer gives check!" - Bobby Fischer

"I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth game, I wasn't feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game?". -- Tartakower
also found this funny,:

Once, at the inaugural meeting of a tournament, when an unusual suggestion that no one liked was about to be rejected, Tartakower rose and supported it so eloquently that the motion carried with only a single opposing vote--Tartakower's"

both found at: http://www.starfireproject.com/chess/

"Men play better than women because they know far more chess combinationbs of the type that may be repeated ad infinitum in almost any game, whereas naive women always want to play independently,relying only on their own beauty, imagination and temperament-that is, not trusting in the real life of the chess pieces"
David Bronstein"

"How does Tal win? It is very simple: he places his pieces in the centre and then sacrifices them somewhere"
David Bronstein

"Chess is not for timid souls "

William Steinitz