10,000 Strangest Chess Quotes

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1. 

"Generally speaking, most chess players are boring, self-centered, money-oriented, poorly educated overgrown adolescents I couldn't care less about. With some exceptions, that includes the Linares crowd and all of the world's top twenty."

– Alex Yermolinsky

2.

“Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders”
(Savielly Tartakower)

3.

“Of Chess it has been said that life is not long
enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not Chess”
(William Ewart Napier)

4.

“Chess is mental torture”
(Garry Kasparov)

5.

“A bad plan is better than none at all”
(Frank Marshall)

6.

“Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind”
(Bobby Fischer)

7.

“Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don’t have this
when you play a computer. I can’t confuse it”
(Judith Polgar)

8.

“I’d rather have a Pawn than a finger”
(Reuben Fine)

9.

“In Chess, just as in life, today’s bliss may be tomorrow’s poison”
(Assaic)

10.

“In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way.  A mans
very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help
him to win, more often checkmate him”
(Charles Buxton)

"I'd rather have a finger, than a Pawn."

(Mikhail Tal) - told to me by Tal at the San Francisco International in 1991.

11.

"England has no Grandmaster weaker than Raymond Keene."
Most drunk Grandmasters

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12.

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate”

Isaac Asimov 

13.

“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”

Emo Philips quotes

14.

The future belongs to he who has the bishops. - Siegbert Tarrasch

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