(183 quotes found)
“The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.”
Viktor Korchnoi
“Those who say they understand chess, understand nothing”
Robert Hubner
“There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman”
Charles Dudley Warner
“Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.”
Clive James
“The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly”
Katherine Neville
“I think it will be a heck of a chess match.”
Lesley Visser
“A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them.”
William Hazlitt
“In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.”
Gary Kasparov
“People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.”
Chamfort
