Winning A Game

"The hardest part of chess is winning a won game."

- Frank Marshall
1877-1944

Recreation vs Occupation

"Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation."

- Vladimir Lenin
1870-1924

Chess Hides No Lies

"On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long."

- Emanuel Lasker
1868-1941

Know How to Refute

"I often play a move I know how to refute."

- Bent Larsen
1935- Present

What Cure Headaches?

"Chess is a cure for headaches."

- John Maynard Keynes
1883-1946

Chess Tests Will

"Chess is a test of wills."

- Paul Keres
1916-1975

How Deep is Chess?

"Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe."

-An Indian Proverb

Chess and A Scheming Mind

"Excellence at chess is one mark of a scheming mind."

- Sherlock Holmes

Chess and Intellectualism

"Chess is the touchstone of intellect."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Chess is Anti-Kindness

"You cannot play chess if you are kind-hearted."

-A French proverb

Life is like Chess

"Life is a kind of chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events."

- Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790

Bobby Fischer's Words on Chess

"You can only get good at chess if you love the game."

"I like to make them squirm."

"If I win, I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not."

- Bobby Fischer
1943- Present

Chess and Pickpocketing

"A man that will take back a move at chess will pick a pocket."

- Richard Fenton
1837-1916

Einstein's Chess Ideas

"Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shakling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer."

- Albert Einstein
1879-1955

Chess in the words of Duchamp

"Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general."

"Not all artists may be chess players, but all chess players are artists."

"I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position."

"Chess is a sport. A violent sport."

- Marcel Duchamp
1887-1968

Chess and Timidity

"Chess is not for the timid."

- Irving Chernev
1900-1981

Chess and Luck

"The good player is always lucky."

- Jose Capablanca
1888-1942

Chess is a Waste of Time

"Life is too short for chess."

- character from Henry J. Byron's play
"Our Boys"

Chess is an Art

"Chess is the art of analysis."

"Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic."

- Mikhail Botvinnik
1911-1995

A Knight Planted Wrongly

"To have a knight planted in your game at K6 is worse than a rusty nail in your knee."

- Efim Bogoljubow
1889-1952