Chess Obsession Quotes

Chess is not a game, but a disease.

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

The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.

She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

I was very competitive growing up. I can't even play chess anymore because I used to play tournament chess in school. There's too much sense memory of sitting in front of a chess board and getting super intense about it. It's ruined the game for me.

The image that everyone has of a chess player is not necessarily positive. I think it's partly due to Bobby Fischer - his rise to fame and then his descent into madness. That left a lot of people with negative stereotypes, of nerds who aren't interesting.