What is your favorite chess quote of all time?

"Life is like a game of chess. You should always think one move ahead of your opponent."

Really true. I'm a busy person and find this quote not only realistic, but also quite thought in depth, so thank you to who ever wrote this quote. (I do not know who).

Quote from third grader after losing all games in her first tournament about what she learned from her experience. "not to put her pieces where she did!"

Someone I can't remember whom told this about Karpov' chess style:

"He moves his pawns forward and backward until he wins."

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Many chess players there.

"Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it." 

A wonderful quote I find myself applying to many aspects in life, it actually appeared way before Lasker in Pedro Damiano's "Libro de la invencion liberal y arte del juego del axedrez"

From a chessplayer who tosses and turns and cannot sleep after a loss.

"I am done with chess, but chess is not done with me."

Aaron Nimzowitsch was obsessive about smokers among other  things.  Emmanuel Lasker was a cigar smoker.  For their  tournament game Mr. Lasker had  agreed not to  smoke at the chess table during the  game.  After the start of the  game Lasker slowly and step by step set a box  of mataches on the  chess table then a cigar.  At which point Nimzowitsch shot up from his chair and  went to  complain to  the tournament director.  The tournament director when to the table where the game was being played, examined the situation and turned to Nimzowitsch and said, "...Mr. Lasker is not  smoking..." , to which Nimzowitsch  replied  excitedly,  "yes, yes...but he  is threatening to  smoke..."

There is an old saying in chess:  the threat is stronger than the execution.

Checkers is a better game than chess, because in chess your constantly wondering if the piece you just moved is en prise. Checkers gives the opportunity to think about strategy.

Edgar Allan Poe (word has it, he was a terrible chess player)

"I move to where the King is going to be, not where he has been" 

     Nimzowitsch said, "Why must I lose to this idiot!"

I thought taht was Alekhine?

That actually tickled me.

Philidor: "Pawns are the soul of Chess".   ....... c1 = N#.

Mikhail Tal when he lost the world championship to Mikhail Botvinnik: "i think i lost because he beat me."

" I like the moment when I break a man's ego." Bobby Fischer

"Zugzwang. It's when you have no good moves. But you still have to move."

Michael Chabon

The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move.

David Bronstein

First, how to sac my queen, then rook, then bishop, then knight, then pawns.

Mikhail Tal