"Sometimes I wish chess would play without kings, they get in the way and get mated when you're winning on the queenside"
"Oh hell. He's so short of time but still he's playing great moves. Whats the point of having chess clocks, if people play well when they've got no time left?"
-Raymond Keene
"There's sound sacrifices, then there's mine!"
Mikhail Tal
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.”
lady_ix Terry Pratchett quotes (English Writer, b.1948)
“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”
Marcel Duchamp quotes
Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.”
"Chess is like life" -Spassky
"Chess is life" -Fischer
"The pin is mightier than the sword." -Reinfeld
“Help your pieces so they can help you" -Morphy
“The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient” -Nimzovich
“Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer” -Albert Einstein
A collection of Fischer quotes:
"All I want to do, ever, is just play Chess”
“Tactics flow from a superior position”
“Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all”
“My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration”
“Different people feel differently about resigning”