2) Early Castling
"A stitch in time saves nine"
Chess proverbs, idioms and wise saying!!!
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3) When someone resigns after one game..
"He who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day"
"May the forks be with you." - quote from Star Wars movie.
"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy knight." - quote from All About Eve movie.
"Houston, we have a pawn promotion." - quote from Apollo 13 movie.
Sep 17, 2016
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One of my own...
"A knight on the rim is grim, but a knight in the corner is forlorner."
ChessPlayinDude47 wrote:
"Houston, we have a pawn promotion." - quote from Apollo 13 movie.
Wise quotes Dude47... WIIIISEEEEEE QUOOOOOTEEEEES!!! 👌
Lemme play along... 1.e4
"one small step for a pawn, one giant start for the game of chess" - quote from Apollo 11 mission.
9) When your 5 move mate combination turns out to be a blunder...
"All that glitters is not gold"
Sep 18, 2016
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"Chess is a sad waste of brains" - Sir Walter Scott
... or was it Doctor Frankenstein who said it?
blueemu wrote:
"Chess is a sad waste of brains" - Sir Walter Scott
... or was it Doctor Frankenstein who said it?
I don't know, but Einstein thought that professional Chess was a waste of a good mind that could be doing something useful.
"Peshki nazad ne khodyat." (Pawns don't go back.) - Russian chess maxim
"Help me, oh-b1-knight-be, you're my only hope." - quote from Star Wars movie.
"What we've got here is a failure to checkmate." - quote from Cool Hand Luke movie.
How could i lose to such an idiot?
"I love the smell of no pawn in the morning." - quote from Apocalypse Now movie.
"I'll be black." - quote from The Terminator movie.
"There's no crying in bughouse!" - quote from A League of Their Own movie.
"It is a game too troublesome to some men's brains ; too full of anxiety ; all but as ... it is a testy, choleric game, and very offensive to him that loseth the mate."
This thread is about leaving something for the next chess generation to ponder on. Just regular proverbs and idioms applicable to chess. Quotes and thoughts are accepted as long as they are wise.
You must have come across must of them... You are about to do it again this time over the board — From a chess perspective.
1) Bullet Chess
"Slow and steady wins the race"