Just state your favorite chess quotes and who its by. Also if anyone knows any quotes about gambits tell me. I love gambits!

Mines "The hardest thing in chess is to win a won game" ~ Frank Marshall

"Fortune promotes everyone without reason or choice, the fools on the chessboard are the nearest to the King."

Hi guys,

I have always liked this one.  You will know who it's by.

"When I am White, I win because I am White. When I am Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov."

Watch your backrank.

ps; I love this topic!!!  Thank you Animals.

" I am the best chess player in the world, and I am here to prove it."  Robert James Fischer (Bobby)

"That's what chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one." -- Bobby Fischer

I read this one in the article on the main page today, and thought it was insightful.

 "Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do." - Tartakower

"Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine."

- Rudolph Spielmann

I have a few by Bobby,

“Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it”

“All I want to do, ever, is just play Chess”

“My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration”

And then one by, yes, David Letterman...“There just isn't enough televised Chess“

“In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.”

-Alexander Alekhine  :)

omg. thats the third time I have seen this quote today

"Sometimes the threat is greater than the execution." --Nimzovitch

"patzer sees a check, patzer gives a check"--Robert James 'bobby' Fischer. also, "The good player is always lucky"--the name escapes me...

I would like to write 5 or 6 quotes here

“Every Chess master was once a beginner”
(Chernev)

“It is no time to be playing Chess when the house is on fire”
(Italian Proverb)

“Only sissies Castle”
(Rob Sillars

“The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature”
(Stanley Ellin)

When the chess game is over, the pawn and the king go back to the same box - Irish saying contributed by Etienne Goldstein

When Victor Korchnoi was offered a draw in a winning position by his opponent, Korchnoi replied, "Sir, I believe I am winning."

"Of Chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not Chess"

"Against God, I would offer odds of pawn and move." -William Steinitz