What is your favorite chess quote?

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bong711

Chess is for Nerds.

Chester-a

My favourite quote is" If you find a good move, look for the better move" but I do not know who said this.

Chester-a

Chess is for everyone, children,young,old..but not for dead

blueemu

GM (and former world champion) Boris Spassky was asked which he thought was better, chess or sex. He replied: "It depends on the position".

MoeBeam

chess is 50% chess pieces and 50% chess board

 

johorsky

Tarrasch: "It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well."

jessiemillano509

"You are never losing when you are learning." -Chess.com

autobunny

Interviewer: "Were you calculating the moves till the end?" Anand: "No, I was thinking what I would eat tonight."

Anand: "No, I was thinking what I would eat tonight."

autobunny

Carlsen to  Maurice: what do you want me to do? 

GM_chess_player

''Pawns are soul of chess''----- (I forgot the name XD tongue.png )

eva_diva

Move In Silence Only Speak When It's Time To Say CHECKMATE

eva_diva

When you see a good move look for a better one

 

crimson_order

"You said you were doing the dishes"

-My wife

eva_diva

That's not a chess qoute!

IMKeto
Chester-a wrote:

My favourite quote is" If you find a good move, look for the better move" but I do not know who said this.

Lasker...

eva_diva

I SAW THAT ONE ON THE ITNERNET BUT I CAME UP WITH ANOTHER ONE BUT I STILL SAID THAT ONE

 

crimson_order
eva_diva wrote:

That's not a chess qoute!

 

Sure it is- typically it goes something like this...

Her- I need to run out and pick up <item>. Can you wash the dishes while I'm out?

Me- Sure

Her- See you in an hour

Me- ... I can squeeze a blitz game in ...

<I lose and launch another game ... several games later she arrives home with the sink still full>

Her- You said you were doing the dishes.

 

CleverOak

Too weak too slow

DrChesspain

Gegen diesen Idioten muss ich verlieren!?  (I have to lose to this idiot!?)

-Aron Nimzowitsch, shouting after he jumped on the table following a loss to Samisch.

 

AlexanderJin

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped

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