All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves. -Bobby Fischer
A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third when you know you’re going to lose. -Savielly Tartakower
Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic. -Mikhail Botvinnik
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind. -Bobby Fischer
One doesn’t have to play well, it’s enough to play better than your opponent. -Siegbert Tarrasch
During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk. -Alexander Alekhine
Many have become Chess Masters, no one has become the Master of Chess. -Siegbert Tarrasch
The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature and the player on the other side is hidden from us. -Thomas Huxley
When you see a good move, look for a better one. -Emanuel Lasker
Openings teach you openings. Endgames teach you chess. -Stephan Gerzadowicz
Good positions don’t win games, good moves do. -Gerald Abrahams
Chess is everything: art, science and sport. -Anatoly Karpov
Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration. -C. J. S. Purdy
One doesn’t have to play well, it’s enough to play better than your opponent. -Siegbert Tarrasch
Those who say they understand chess, understand nothing. -Robert Hubner
Nobody ever won a chess game by resigning. -Savielly Tartakower
He who fears an isolated Queen’s Pawn should give up Chess. -Siegbert Tarrasch
Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight. -Jose Raul Capablanca
To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game. -Savielly Tartakover
Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for. -Hans Ree
Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists. -Marcel Duchamp
Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess. -Evan Esar
Pawn endings are to chess what putting is to golf. -Cecil Purdy
Sarcasm is like a good game of chess. Most people don't know how to play chess. -Unknown
There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world. -Pierre Mac Orlan
Of Chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not Chess. -William Ewart Napier
I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess. -Bobby Fischer
Poets do not go mad; but chess players do. -Gilbert K. Chesterton
Move in silence; only speak when its time to say checkmate. -Unknown
Most Gods throw dice, but fate plays chess, and you dont find out till too late that he's been playing with two queens all along. -Terry Pratchett
A king may be the most important piece on the chess board. However the queen is the most powerful as she performs more moves than any other token. Men take notes. -Karim R. Ellis
Weak points or holes in the opponent’s position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns. -Siegbert Tarrasch
