I find it is almost always better to allow my opponent to sacrifice his pieces.

(This is not mine, one of our world champions first uttered this.)

Don't surround yourself with yourself.  Move on back two squares.

Yes (you know the band)

doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doo doo...

Chess is not war, but the ways we reenact war.

sprinter101

Mikhail Tal

Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine. – Mikhail Tal

First, how to sac my queen, then rook, then bishop, then knight, then pawns. – Mikhail Tal (on what he thinks about after his opponent moves)

I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn. – Mikhail Tal

^{To play for a draw, at any rate with White, is to some degree a crime against chess."}

^{"If Black is going for victory, he is practically forced to allow his opponent to get some kind of well-known positional advantage."}

First, how to sac my queen, then rook, then bishop, then knight, then pawns. – Mikhail Tal (on what he thinks about after his opponent moves)

They compare me with Lasker, which is an exaggerated honor. Lasker made mistakes in every game and I only in every second one! – Mikhail Tal

chess reminds me of medical school, the positonal motifs are anatomy; the tactics anand strategies are physiology; and post-game analysis is an autopsy

Chess is like our lives. We can sacrifice our queen to get a direct checkmate or a prolonged advantage. It is just like us people who have to sacrifice to take care of your children or to just have fun with our families.

Sacrifices can be good, but know the right time to do it. Doing it at the wrong place or time kills you.

chess? it's where crazy things happen!

Within this game of CHESS is every thought you think to make every move you make in your life's journey

Chess : The king of games and the game for kings.

chess is the best game i ever had in my entire life!

Chess is an example of something that is just beyond human mental abilities, but not so far beyond them that we cannot make a decent stab at it. We’re very good at language, no better than rats at mazes, and somewhere in between at chess.

– Noam Chomsky

"Never lose your queen to a pawn"

"You call these bagels?" Jesus

pawn is more important than queen. you lose pawn, you lose the game.

"Castle queenside and die!" - David Zimbeck

"g... h.. gh...a...... ..." - Kasparov after making a blunder (rare case!)

"If you start with d4 I'll seriously track you down and kill you!", "1.d4" and "*Gives up*" - Thymo (I hate queen openings! )

"You learn from your mistakes"

But helpless Pieces of the Game fate plays
Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days;
Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closet lays.
 From “The Rubaiyat” by Omar Khayyam

Chess is a game, and like all games there are winners and losers. So play and enjoy.

“The beauty of a move lies not in its' appearance
but in the thought behind it”
(Aaron Nimzovich)