Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine
The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed according to the sacrifices it contains.
Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.
If you don't know what to play, play nothing.
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.
Martial sex is kinda like ordering a Civil War chess set through the mail. You get one piece every four to six weeks, you don't know what kind of shape that piece is gonna be in when you get it, but you still gotta pay the handling charges.
The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.
The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.
We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.
The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.
There just isn't enough televised Chess
The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish.
I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.
Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.
During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk
I had thrown my body in for art. . . I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not a very good artist. But this was, like, one thing I could do. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art. )
Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.
Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.
If the defender is forced to give up the center, then every possible attack follows almost of itself.
The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess.