Quotes and Sayings About Chess

Attack! Always Attack!
-- Adolf Anderssen

#Chess #Strategy

Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.
-- Adrian Rogers

#Games #Viewpoints #Chess

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.
-- Al Leiter

#Play #Chess #Pitcher

Psychology is the most important factor in chess.
-- Alexander Alekhine

#Psychology #Important #Chess

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.
-- Alexander Alekhine

#Art #Responsibility #Chess

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.
-- Alexander Alekhine

#Chess #Beast #Strategy

Chess will always be the master of us all.
-- Alexander Alekhine

#Chess #Masters

Chess is not only knowledge and logic
-- Alexander Alekhine

#Chess #Logic

I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.
-- Alexander Alekhine

#Eight #Principles #Chess

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.
-- Alexander Alekhine

#Player #Chess #Logical

As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.
-- Alexander Alekhine

#Sacrifice #Chess #Praise

Combination is a soul of chess.
-- Alexander Alekhine

#Soul #Chess #Combination

Deux fous gagnent toujours, mais trois fous, non!
-- Alexander Alekhine

#Chess

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

#Mistake #Chess #Bigs

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.
-- Alexander Alekhine

#Genius #World #Chess

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.
-- Alexander Alekhine

#Objectivity #Chess #Firsts

During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk
-- Alexander Alekhine

#Competition #Chess #Beast

Chess is a matter of vanity.
-- Alexander Alekhine

#Vanity #Chess #Matter

Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship, in front of me was a quite different person: an enraged lion, although with the fervour typical only of a southerner, with his temperamental patter, which made it hard to follow the torrent of his indignant exclamations and words.
-- Alexander Koblencs

#Battle #Chess #Typical

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!
-- Alexander Kotov

#Genius #Chess #Fischer

The placing of the center pawns determines the 'topography' of a game of chess.
-- Alexander Kotov

#Games #Topography #Chess

It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.
-- Alexander Kotov

#Play #Chess #Strategy

The study of typical plans is something that the leading grandmasters devote a great deal of time to. I would say that the most far-seeing of them devote as much time to this as to the study of openings.
-- Alexander Kotov

#Training #Typical #Chess

If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible even though there seemed no particular hurry at the time.
-- Alexander Kotov

#Kings #Play #Chess

The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules, and as often happens in such cases, they went too far. The laconic tended to become dogmatic, and chess began to lose its freshness, originality and charm.
-- Alexander Kotov

#Teaching #Chess #Originality

Time trouble is blunder time.
-- Alexander Kotov

#Time #Chess #Trouble

It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.
-- Alexander Kotov

#Art #Artist #Chess

The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that I don't understand chess as a whole. But then again no one understands chess in its entirety. Perhaps talent is something else, in chess it is conditionality.
-- Alexander Morozevich

#Reality #Practice #Chess

A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.
-- Alexandra Kosteniuk

#Sports #Men #Chess

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.
-- Alexandra Kosteniuk

#Play #Chess #Faces