Chess Quotes - Page 2

It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation

Psychology is the most important factor in chess.

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In chess, if anybody claims he is better than I, I can checkmate him.

Which do I prefer? Sex or chess? It depends on the position.

There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

Without error there can be no brilliancy

If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn't do well. They'd get bad openings.

The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody

Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are on the brink of disaster.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

Chess is eminently and emphatically the philospher's game.

Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn't seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn't like that, so I decided I'd have to show them they weren't any better than me, you know? They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, 'He beat us at chess, but he's still just an uncouth kid.' So I decided to dress up.

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.

I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.

You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.