Chess Quotes

'There is more real chess truth in ideas than in variations."
- Richard Reti

"I've got Zurg right where I want him - he thinks he's winning" Buzz Lightyear speaking whilst floating in space clinging to a fragment of his exploded spaceship.

"The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made."

- Ksawery Tartakower

No plan ever survives contact with the enemy

- Field Marshall Helmuth Carl Bernard von Moltke (not rly a chess quote but it works)

"The game has three phases: the first when one hopes one has an advantage; the second when one believes one has an advantage; and the third when one knows one is going to lose."

Savielly Tartakover

Pawn endings are to chess as putting is to golf

Cecil Purdy

Originally posted by sannevssr
I failed chess because of my height - Woody Allen

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

When I look at the empty board, I feel like an artist before a blank canvas. -Bronstein (200 open games)

I don't have the book with me so I might be wrong.

"Checkmate, fag !" Me, whenever I beat a teenager who thought he was a really good player.

Fischer once said he could beat any woman at knight odds. A master, when asked to comment on this said, "Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight."

"Chess is the royal waste of time."

Originally posted by kenan
I was reading yesterday. I came across these inspiring words I wanted to share:

"If you've made a mistake, or committed an inaccuracy, there is no need to become annoyed and to think that everything is lost. You have to re-orientate yourself quickly and find a new plan in the new situation" ---Bronstein

Originally posted by Korch
"The game has three phases: the first when one hopes one has an advantage; the second when one believes one has an advantage; and the third when one knows one is going to lose."

Savielly Tartakover

"If you see a good move, look for a better one" ---Lasker

🙂