"Chess, like women, has to power to make men scratch their head and wonder what the hell is going on" - me
"Chess960 is the future of Chess! Maybe not this generation but in another one or two! It is incredibly beautiful, very exciting, wonderfully imperfect, completely bizarre, endlessly fascinating and a simple yet complex game that endures for life time without needing technology to play. Not only that, but Chess960 encourages both types of players, the one's that like to research and memorize, as well as the one's that like to fly by the seat of their pants and get creative." ~ mirlife
@MajorGiggles
Thanks for the long quote from Mikhail Tal. What an amazing person he was.
Everyone, thanks for the interesting quotes. I hope there are more.
3 more quotes from me:
"The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life."
-- Paul Morphy
"You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but endeavour to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression that may be used with truth; such as, you understand the game better than I, but you are a little inattentive, or, you play too fast; or, you had the best of the game, but something happened to divert your thoughts, and that turned it in my favour."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Thanks for the long quote from Mikhail Tal. What an amazing person he was.
Everyone, thanks for the interesting quotes. I hope there are more.
3 more quotes from me:
"The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life."
-- Paul Morphy
"You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but endeavour to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression that may be used with truth; such as, you understand the game better than I, but you are a little inattentive, or, you play too fast; or, you had the best of the game, but something happened to divert your thoughts, and that turned it in my favour."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Quote from @BobC : "The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life."
-- Paul Morphy
That one reminds me of : "Play Chess only to distract you; It is the most beautiful game, but it is a game. Its laurels are deceptive, its ambition is pathological."
--Tartakover
-- Paul Morphy
That one reminds me of : "Play Chess only to distract you; It is the most beautiful game, but it is a game. Its laurels are deceptive, its ambition is pathological."
--Tartakover
Here are some of my favorite chess quotes. Enjoy!
“Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation”
(Max Euwe)
“Many have become Chess Masters,
no one has become the Master of Chess”
(Siegbert Tarrasch)
“Excellence at Chess is one mark of a scheming mind”
(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Chess is 99 percent tactics”
(Teichmann)
And my favorite:
“During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a
combination of a beast of prey and a monk”
(Alexander Alekhine)
“Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation”
(Max Euwe)
“Many have become Chess Masters,
no one has become the Master of Chess”
(Siegbert Tarrasch)
“Excellence at Chess is one mark of a scheming mind”
(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Chess is 99 percent tactics”
(Teichmann)
And my favorite:
“During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a
combination of a beast of prey and a monk”
(Alexander Alekhine)
"The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors." ~ Viktor Korchnoi
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