List Of Chess Quotes

There Is Then No Analogy Whatever Between The Operations Of The Chess-player, And Those Of The Calculating Machine Of Mr. Babbage , And If We Choose To Call The Former A Pure Machine We Must Be Prepared To Admit That It Is, Beyond All Comparison, The Most Wonderful Of The Inventions Of Mankind.

The Higher Powers Of The Reflective Intellect Are More Decidedly And More Usefully Tasked By The Unostentatious Game Of Draughts Than By All The Elaborate Frivolity Of Chess.

It Is Impossible To Win Gracefully At Chess.

Chess Has This In Common With Making Poetry; That The Desire For It Comes Upon The Amateur In Gusts.

Never Copy Yourself, Always Copy Someone Else.

Chess Problems Demand From The Composer The Same Virtues That Characterize All Worthwhile Art: Originality, Invention, Conciseness, Harmony, Complexity, And Splendid Insincerity

I Like To Play Chess With Bald Men In The Park Although It's Hard To Find 32 Of Them.

I Hope We Will Be Able To Have A Happy Family Ourselves.

Chess Is The Gymnasium Of The Mind.

I'd Like To Go Away For Six Months And Learn To Kiteboard And Windsurf. I Love Pinochle, I Love Chess And I Love Windsurfing.

Chess Makes Man Wiser And Clear-sighted.

Chess Is A Sad Waste Of Brains.