Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old chess quotes, chess sayings, and chess proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.Blaise Pascal
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Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.Evan Esar
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Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.Savielly Tartakower
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Chess is the only game greater than its players.Tim Rice
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The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move.David Bronstein
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The pawns are the soul of chess.Philidor
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Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.Tarrasch
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Chess is the art of analysis.Mikhail Botvinnik
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What would Chess be without silly mistakes?Kurt Richter
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Chess is like war on a board.Bobby Fischer
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Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.Vladimir Putin
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Chess demands total concentration.Bobby Fischer
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In Chess, just as in life, today's bliss may be tomorrow's poison.Assaic
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You can only get good at Chess if you love the game.Bobby Fischer
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Life is too short for chess.Byron
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Chess is a good mistress, but a bad master. Gerald Abrahams
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Those who say they understand Chess, understand nothing.Robert Hubner
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The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.David Bronstein
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A bad day of Chess is better than any good day at work.unknown
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The only thing chess players have in common is chessLodewijk Prins
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Chess is not for the timid.Irving Chernev
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That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.Bobby Fischer
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Many have become Chess Masters, no one has become the Master of Chess.Siegbert Tarrasch
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.Indian Proverb
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When you see a good move, look for a better one.Dominic Lawson
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Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life.Edward Morgan Foster
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All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.Bobby Fischer
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Chess is the struggle against error.Johannes Zukertort
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Chess is life and every game is like a new life.Eduard Gufeld
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Chess is as much a mystery as women.Purdy
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On the chess-board lies and hypocrisy do not survive long.Em. Lasker
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Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.Mikhail Botvinnik
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Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess.William Napier
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Chess, like love, is infectious at any age. Salo Flohr
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It [chess] is eminently and emphatically the philosopher's game.Paul Morphy
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Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.Vladimir Kramnik
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When the chess game is over, the pawn and the king go back to the same box.Irish Saying
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There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world.Pierre Macorlan
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Excellence at Chess is one mark of a scheming mind.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Every chess master was once a beginner.Chernev
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Chess is a curse upon a man.H. G. Wells
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Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands!Renaud and Kahn
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Chess is above all, a fight!Emanuel Lasker
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In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.Emanuel Lasker
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Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self image and self esteem.Saudin Robovic
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Chess is mental torture.Garry Kasparov)
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Chess is not relaxing; it's stressful even if you win.Jennifer Shahade
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You cannot play at Chess if you are kind-hearted.French Proverb
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When in doubt... play Chess!Tevis
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Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.Marcel Duchamp
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In which the game of chess as a game of science and mathematical invention is addressed.Ruy LĂłpez
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Chess is a powerful reducing agent. It can reduce a whole battlefield or city or planet down to sixty-four squares. And yet, within that simplistic frame, chess retains its active quality; like a snow globe, it shrinks things down, but retains its dynamic essence.Ruy LĂłpez
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If a ruler does not understand chess, how can he rule over over a kingdom?King Khusros II
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Chess games will always end up being a draw unless one side makes a mistake.Susan Polgar
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Winning has little to do with brilliance; plenty of smart people play chess poorly.Susan Polgar
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Triumph on the board comes from having practiced the tactical skills necessary to deal with the obstacles that opponents create.Susan Polgar
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In the fields of finance or chess, regardless of how well you prepare strategy and plan your moves, if the odds don't roll in your favor, you lose.Susan Polgar
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In chess, the fear of a potential loss outweighs the thrill of winning to such a degree that tournament participants often or accept a draw even if they have a superior position - just to be on the safe side.Susan Polgar
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I'd rather have a pawn than a finger.Reuben Fine
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The world of chess is more than simply wooden pieces and wooden problems.John C. Knudsen
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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, the player on the other sideis hidden from us.Thomas Huxley
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Not all artists may be chess players, but all chess players are artists.Marcel Duchamp
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Excellence at chess is one mark of a scheming mind.Sherlock Holmes
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There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; and those who aim to control circumstances and who play chess.Mortimer Collins
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Chess is war overboard. The object is to crush the opponent's ego.Bobby Fischer
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Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.Siegbert Tarrasch
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A game of chess 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.Saviely Tartakower
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Those who say they understand chess, understand nothing.Robert Huebner
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing very clever, when they are only wasting their time.George Bernard Shaw
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The essence of chess is thinking about what chess is.David Bronstein
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There is no remorse like the remorse of chess.H.G. Wells
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Chess is an egotistical game, and all its protagonists hold conceits of some kind or other, else there would be no pint in playing.Charles Warburton
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In chess, as in life, it is ironic that catastrophe strikes just at the moment when all seems secure.Irving Chernev
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It takes two great men, contending with one another under the utmost personal responsibility, to produce one great game.Emanuel Lasker
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There are no heroes in chess.Cory Evans
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There just isn't enough televised chess.David Letterman
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Remember, dear, chess is a danger to family life.Chess Fever
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There was a time when chess was simply a game, a hobby for leisure hours. In our days it has become an art in which the virtuosi create real works of art, games which are then disseminated by press, radio and television to millions of fans who get aesthetic pleasure from them. In many countries the game has become one aspect of a nation's culture.Alexander Kotov
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Chess is a substitute for life itself.David Spanier
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For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.Moses Mendlelssohn
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The object of the game of chess is to checkmate the king.John C. Knudsen
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A mastery of emotion is an essential ingredient to the mastery of chess.Charles Warburton
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During a chess competition a chess master should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk.Alexander Alekhine
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When two fiercely aggressive masters clash, the struggle is unusually short and violent.Irving Chernev
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The boy doesn't have a clue about chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession.Mikhail Botvinnik
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The game today for most leaders can better be compared to chess--a game in which strategy matters; a game in which individual pieces have unique abilities that drive unique contributions; a game in which heightened focus and a deeper level of thinking are required to win.Mark Miller
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Chess teaches logic, patience, and planning, and it rewards those who learn to discipline their minds.Garry Kasparov
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Chess is also an excellent tool for examining the consequences of one's actions and the decisions that led to them.Garry Kasparov
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To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from you opponent.Garry Kasparov
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Chess requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculation, creativity, and a desire for results.Garry Kasparov