What is your favorite chess quote of all time?

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Yorrdamma

AZ Quotes site has numerous quotes by many of the great chess masters and champions of yore.

Check it out. I found it quite entertaining and educational. They have R J Fischer, Karpov, and Kasparov, just to name a few.

WalangAlam

" If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure." Garry Kasparov

sameez1

"OOPS!"

Floor_Jansen

These go to 11 

Decoy321

"When you see a good move, look for a better one" 

 - Emanuel Lasker

YorikOGwaun

Bishop takes rook pawn - Miguel Bain.

Chully

dont play when you suck

AussieMatey

I sometimes ask my dog what's the best move to play. My doggie always says "push the f pawn". Usually that's rather dogdy. Smile

human-in-training

Is there an emoji with its eyes rolling and its hand moving in a wanking motion?  Because that would be a fitting response to #191's attempt at a 'joke.'  You should've quit on page 9 while you were ahead.

Shravani_Patil

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win

vijkumar219

There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player. : Viswanathan Anand

kindaspongey
JonThePawn wrote:

"1 e4 

One of the best moves on the board!"

                                         - Irving Chernev

I do not think that is the original. I think that that is the way John Nunn rewrote it when he did the algebraic rewrite.

kindaspongey

I think it was back in 1992 that Fischer said, "That's what chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one."

Squarely

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

— Mikhail Botvinnik
narnys
Squarely wrote:
Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.
— Mikhail Botvinnik

It's my favourite quote too. I found an identical translation elsewhere on the Internet a few weeks ago. But just before you do what I did and engrave it irrevocably on a wooden board, note that it should be "that expresses" not "which expresses". Every time I look at my board it reminds me that my grammar is as poor as my chess!

neverherebefore
I_Am_Second wrote:

"On the chessboard lies and hypocrisy do not survive long.  The creative combination lays bare the presumption of lies; the merciless fact, culmination in checkmate, contradicts the hypocrites.”
―Emanuel Lasker

Translation:You can't bluff in chess

Squarely

...not only can you bluff at chess, one can also cheat!

"Chess is as much a mystery as women" (?!); hardly, women only want a baby and your money...Chess demands your very soul.

 

 

Squarely
#200 3 days ago

137

“Only sissies Castle”

ROFL (my ass off!)

StevenPatzer

e4 I win.

AussieMatey

If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all.  - Anatoly Karpov.