Chess Tactics Quotes

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game

I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.

Chess is mental torture.

Chess is not a game, but a disease.

Chess will always be the master of us all.

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’

Combination is a soul of chess.

Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.

I didn't know so well chess theory, the theory of chess openings. And so, of course I knew the theory, but not on the level of the best players, so this was my... this was always my weakness.

I don't know if people know this but I am pretty good at chess. I was always on the chess team at school when I was younger.

It's important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally think too many coaching and training classes may take away a child's interest in the game itself. The essential thing to do is practise often and, in case of a doubt, to consult a trainer.

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!

There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end.

I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame.

A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.

My challenge when I came back was to face the young talent, dissect their games, and show them maybe that they needed to learn more about the game than just the money aspect.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

Chess is one long regret.

I love the game - and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they have to, every three years. They play for draws with each other but play to win against the Western masters. Draws make for dull chess, wins make for fighting chess.

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.