Favorite Chess Quotes

Suggested by:  @SPK1729 • @hhart10k

What are your favorite chess quotes?

Share it below and a reason for why you love it then let's discuss so that we don't end up in a deep, dark forest where 2+2=5 and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.

"There are two types of sacrifices in chess, sound ones and mine,"

Mikhail Tal 

I rarely play against engines at all, because they just make me feel so stupid and useless." By Magnus Carlsen.

I've always resonated with

"every grandmaster was once a beginner"

"You may learn much more from a game you lose than a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games to become a good player." - José Raúl Capablanca

I live by this quote every single day, no matter what the outcome of my games are.

“Gegen diesen Idioten muss ich verlieren!” – “Why must I lose to this idiot!”
Nimzowitsch shouted this standing on a table playing in Berlin against Sämisch. I personally shout it internally every time I blunder. It's hilarious to me.

"To improve your game, you must study the endgame before all else!" - Jose Raul Capablanca

Hi!

Here a very practical quote from A. Kotov: "In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only."

Good luck!

maafernan

chess.com coach

“When you see a good move, look for a better one.” - Emanuel Lasker 
For all the perfectionistic chessplayers (including me, who usually gets in time trouble and regrets everything 🙄)

Takes,Takes,Takes !

"The game ends when the King falls, not when a pawn takes your queen."

If you see a good move, play it! Hurry, you will run out of time!

"While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists." Marcel Duchamp

Anything by Tartakower is always good:

https://www.chess.com/blog/ThummimS/the-tartakoverisms-of-savielly-tartakower

Or from the Complete chess addict book:

"Tell me, how long did it take to lean chess so badly?"

"Sir , it 's been nights of study and self-denial" - Anon.

If anyone is interested, i've made a blog last year about quotes from players of the past😃!
Check it out on my profile or click here to read it

It is good ones i think instead of sound ones

"To play chess well is the sign of a gentleman, but to master the art of chess is a sign of a wasted life."

- Paul Morphy

thanks wind for accepting this and my quote for the day is 
"I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves."
and do you know who said this...?

“I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.”

Bobby Fischer