quotations about chess
Chess is particularly the game of the unappreciated, who seek in play that success which life has denied them.
RICHARD RETI
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Modern Ideas in Chess
Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it.
VLADIMIR KRAMNIK
Music and Chess: Apollo Meets Caissa
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players.
ANATOL RAPOPORT
Strategy and Conscience
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
The Irrational Knot
Those persons who make light of the wooden puppets that run over the surface of the chess board should recollect that a frame of wires strung with wooden balls was the familiar companion of the earliest mathematicians, that the science of logarithms was perfected by means of wooden pegs and a board pierced with holes, and that Napoleon won his victories before his battles were fought, by sticking his map of Europe full of pins surmounted by divers colored balls of sealing-wax.
FRANKLIN K. YOUNG & EDWIN C. HOWELL
The Minor Tactics of Chess: A Treatise on the Deployment of the Forces in Obedience to Strategic Principle
Now we appreciate that what affords us so much enjoyment in chess is really the same thing for all of us, be it for the layman who sees nothing finer in chess than the sacrificial combination or be it for the expert who marvels at the far-reaching scheme of a game. It is the triumph of the intellect and genius over the lack of imagination; the triumph of personality over materialism.
RICHARD RETI
Modern Ideas in Chess
The hardest thing in chess is to win a won game.
MAX EUWE
From My Games, 1920-1937
Chess is not a standard for measuring the abilities of your acquaintances--nor an epitome of all the sciences--nor a panacea for all human ills--nor a subject for daily toil and nightly meditation. It is simply a recreation, and only to be used and regarded as such. The less selfish you are in its pursuit--the clearer head--the more patience--the better temper you bring to the practice of it, the better will you illustrate the merits of chess as the most intellectual of games, and establish your own character as a philosopher even in sport.
HOWARD STAUNTON
"The Chess-Player's Handbook,", Littell's Living Age, Aug. 18, 1849
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Table Talk
Chess is not a science -- at least, not exclusively a science. The proportion as we see it is roughly one quarter science, one quarter art, and all the rest -- battle.
MAX EUWE & H. KRAMER
The Middlegame