The best Quotes and Sayings about Chess

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The best Quotes and Sayings about Chess

You know how the game of chess is played. Pieces must be sacrificed!

Orochimaru in Naruto
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The only opponents who aren't coming up with excuses for being defeated by me are computers.

Losing & Defeat, ExcusesBobby Fischer (World Chess Champion)
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All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

Bobby Fischer
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Chess is life.

Bobby Fischer
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It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.

Kazuo Ishiguro in Never Let Me Go
 
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I believe that cheating in chess is a big deal and an existential threat to the game.

Magnus Carlsen, September 2022
 
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Chess is mental torture.

Garry Kasparov
 
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

Bobby Fischer
 
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

Magnus Carlsen
 
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I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn’t even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.

Magnus Carlsen
 
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The highest art of the chessplayer lies in not allowing your opponent to show you what he can do.

Garry Kasparov
 
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Few things are as mentally brutal as chess.

The Queen's Gambit, Season 1 Episode 5
 
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Mr. Shaibel: "Those things are called openings."
Beth: "Is that one of 'em?"
Mr. Shaibel: "Yeah... the Queen's Gambit."

Mr. Shaibel in The Queen's Gambit, Season 1 Episode 1
 
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Ivana: "Do you know how we keep warm in Russia?"
Austin: "I can guess, baby."
Ivana: "We play chess."
Austin: "I guessed wrong."

RussiaAustin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me, by Austin Powers
 
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