Favorite Chess Quotes (not found anywhere else)

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  • Lasker(DGM): Resign or else.
  • Capablanca(DGM): I think I'll else.
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  • Zsa Zsa Gabor(PMS): Macho does not prove mucho.
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  • Alekhine(DGM): That was rather tasty, Euwe. And you say it has no alcohol?
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  • Judit Polgar(GM): It will take more than what's in your pants to beat me.
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  • Anand(GM): I don't pay attention when I play. I wanted to be a doctor.
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  • Anand(GM): I think Judit has a crush on me.
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  • Judit Polgar(GM): As if, Vishy. Didn't you read my last quote?
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  • Korchnoi(MGM): This time I'll win the Championship for sure.
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  • Kasparov(SGM): Be the chess player not the chess piece.
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  • Nigel Short(BFGM): Chess is ruthless: bring a drop cloth.
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  • Woody Allen(Patzer): I didn't make the chess team because I play 1. g4.
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  • Pawnshover(PG,WP,GBM): I am a victim of chess.
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  • William Hazlitt(probably plays 1. g4 too): A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them.
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  • IBM(C): We finally figured out how to beat Kasparov. We programmed the computer to play poker.
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  • Chess.com(ICS): Have you looked up the definition of quote, pawnshover?

Avatar of Daemon_Panda

lol


Avatar of Daemon_Panda

did you make these up?

 


Avatar of pawnshover

I didn't make up four of them and that's the gospel truth. ^_^


Avatar of shakmatnykov

Here is a 'French/English' spoonerism suitable for delivery along with White's fourth move in the Spanish Exchange variant...

" If the shou fits,... wear it."