“I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.”
-Bobby Fischer
"When I am White, I win because I am White. When I am Black, I win because I am Bogoljubow."- Bogoljubow.
"When asked how many moves he saw ahead, Capablanca replied: 'Just one. The best one.'"
Clobber I think it was R.Rèti who was adressed that question.
I'm not sure who said this but I love it! Someone out there must know:
"Play the opening like a book, play the middle game like a magician, play the endgame like a machine."
"Place the contents of the chess box in a hat, shake them up vigorously, pour them on the board from a height of two feet - and you get the style of Steinitz."
– Henry Bird
"Nobody can give God pawn odds and win. But if I played white, I bet I could play God to a draw." -Robert J. Fischer
“There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine”
-Mikhail Tal
"The boy (then a 12-year-old named Anatoly Karpov) doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession."
- Mikhail Botvinnik
(Oh, theking, it was by Spielmann)
"Gegen diesen Idioten muss ich verlieren!" ("That I should lose to this idiot!"). - Nimzowitsch on losing to Saemisch
Man A " See my soldiers are the pawns and my advisors are the minor pieces"
Man B "and you are the king?"
Man A "No, I am the board"
Podolski (Polish soccer player): "Football is like chess, only without the dice"
Sue Maroroa (after winning the Women's Championship of New Zealand): "I'm sorry, I don't know what my best game was - I don't remember any of them"
"I love all positions. Give me a difficult positional game, I will play it. Give me a bad position, I will defend it. Openings, endgames, complicated positions, dull draws, I love them and I will do my very best. But totally won positions, I cannot stand them."
- Donner
"I am Alexander Alekhine, Chess Champion of the World! I have a cat named Chess. Papers? I don't need any papers."
--Alekhine, being asked to produce identification papers while crossing the Polish border
This scene from The Wire is incredible and a great example of why, imo, it was the most intelligent show on TV. A gang "lieutenant" teaches a couple soldiers how to play chess using examples of gang life. Here's the scene on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1HUlTKvDUI
Mine is: " Chess is a game by its form,an art by its content and a science by the difficult of gaining mastery in it.Chess can convey as much happiness as a good book or work of music can.However,it is necessary to play well and only afterwards will one experience real delight."
- Tigran V. Petrosian
You may post your own personal quotation of how you define your aproach to the royal game,not necessary a famous one.Regards of the Ghost...