Quotes about Chess Player

Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head. Votes: 5

I'm a pretty good chess player. Votes: 4

The strategist is a chess player thrown into life. Votes: 4

For us chess players the language of artist is something natural. Votes: 4

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters. Votes: 4

My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life. Votes: 4

I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! Votes: 4

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions. Votes: 4

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that. Votes: 4

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common. Votes: 4

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation. Votes: 4

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time. Votes: 4

I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be in the one city where there was a sprouting chess team: Chennai. Votes: 4

I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation. Votes: 4

A great chess player always has a very good memory. Votes: 3

A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position. Votes: 3

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa. Votes: 3

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. Votes: 3

To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player. Votes: 3

I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune. Votes: 3

It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old. Votes: 3

Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening. Votes: 3

Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player. Votes: 3

Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first. Votes: 3

As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine. Votes: 3

Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy. Votes: 3

I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov. Votes: 3

Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess. Votes: 3

For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime. Votes: 3

A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn. Votes: 3

India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century. Votes: 3

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop. Votes: 3

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player. Votes: 3

Bridget did not budge, and her face was without expression. She sat, quietly defeated like a chess player who lost a career match in less than four moves. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand Master chess player. Once you get one, then I'll buy some of the feminism... Votes: 3

I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says, 'A sound mind in a sound body'. Votes: 3

Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of a wink, a self-portrait and not much more. Votes: 3

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any. Votes: 3

If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all. Votes: 3

Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverence and stamina are cultivated, and these qualities are, in truth, as necessary to a chess player as a marathon runner. Votes: 3

Chess has given me a lot more than I could ask for. I have been able to feel special, travel the world and do what I truly enjoy. Moreover, chess players love being their own boss and hate having to wake up early! Votes: 3

The Indians and Chinese have become brilliant chess professionals. They get on a plane and play all over the world. This has led to dramatic pressure on incomes. Nowadays, the best chess player in Argentina can no longer make a living playing chess. Votes: 3

We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in a way quite similar to that in which it goes on with the individual chess player, only with the latter more rapidly. Votes: 3

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game. Votes: 3

It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual carping care is foreign. Therefore he loves the attack and the bold sacrifice; for theirin lies the shortest way to his ultimate objective. Votes: 3

A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser. Votes: 3

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited. Votes: 3

I'm not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while, you can almost see lines of force between the pieces. Areas of danger where it is physically impossible to move pieces into. Clouds of possibility, forbidden zones. Votes: 3

I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I was 16 years old. In other sports, if you have been playing for seven years, you are not a young prodigy any more. You're one of the pros. Votes: 3

The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in charge of them. And it's your ability to see into the future and the effects of the decisions you've made that males you either a good or not a good chess player. It's not luck. Votes: 3

The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward. Votes: 3

When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because he used to come around to the Manhattan club in the forties - before he died in the early forties. They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since. Votes: 3

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation. Votes: 2

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though. Votes: 2

We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow. Votes: 2

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game. Votes: 2

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player. Votes: 2

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this. Votes: 2

I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing. Votes: 2

I didn't know so well chess theory, the theory of chess openings. And so, of course I knew the theory, but not on the level of the best players, so this was my... this was always my weakness. Votes: 2

Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player Votes: 0

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed. Votes: 0

I think a player constantly improves his understanding of chess with experience. Votes: 0

A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player Votes: 0

The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game. Votes: 0

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other. Votes: 0

Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move. Votes: 0

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do. Votes: 0

Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game. Votes: 0

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game. Votes: 0

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player Votes: 0

Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself. Votes: 0

The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game Votes: 0

The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'. Votes: 0

There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'. Votes: 0

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind. Votes: 0