Why must I lose to this idiot!?
Aron Nimzowitsch
Most interesting Chess quote..!
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"After 1.P-K4, White's game is in its death throes!"
Geula Breyer
"You learn much more from the games you lose than from those you win."
Capablanca
“Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events” (Benjamin Franklin)
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman. - English Proverbs
"I see it feelingly"
--King Lear's guide to Blindfold Chess
Chess commandment: "Thou shalt not take thine enemy's Queen Knight Pawn with thy Queen." (I did put it in quotes.)
Syrtis wrote:
.... except when it hasn't been dipped in poison.
Yea verily.
"I don't know. That's a trick question." - Bobby Fischer (after being asked how much money he REALLY wants before he'd agree to play in the 1972 World Championship Match.)
Another interesting quote..
Sundhar wrote:
"Those who say they understand chess, understand nothing"
-- Robert HUBNER
"Attack! Defend! Attack! Defend!"... goes on and on until the end of the game. lol It is a mind game, for sure. lol
"The older I grow, the more I value Pawns." --KERES
It's not safe to take the b-pawn, even when it's safe. German proverb.
"Chess is mind torture"
Kasparov
"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece." --Ralph Charell
"The hardest game to win is a won game." -- Em. LASKER
"You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2 + 2 = 5 and the path leading out is only wide enough for one." - Mikhail Tal, the "Magician from Riga" and Chess World Champion 1960-61.
"chess is a terrible game. if you have no center, then your opponent has a freer position. if you do have the center, then you really have something to worry about!"
guess who said that
Which is the most interesting chess quote you have ever heard..?
My favourate chess quote is...
“That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your
opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one”-
Bobby Fischer