What is your favorite chess quote?

Hehehehe black Bishop, you're fired! black knight, you're fired too! You'll beat all comers in that way!

to sack: to dismiss from a job in British English :)

Surely you ment "sac" from "sacrifice".It's a great quote

A good player is always lucky. – José Raúl Capablanca

After 1.e4 White's game is in its last throes!
– Julius Breyer -

"And Charlot took the chess-board and said thus: 'Ha, lecherous *astard, must you talk so much about it?' And raises the chess-board and gave him such a great blow with it that he dashed out all his brains and forced his two eyes out of his head, and he fell dead in the middle of the place."
– Report of how the son of Charlemagne murdered an opponent who celebrated too much, his victory over him in chess.

"My name is Rustam Kamsky. You annoyed my son. Prepare to die."
– Rustam Kamsky [who has obviously seen "The Princess Bride"]

"Have I ever mentioned you play an irritating game of chess, Mr. Spock?"
– Captain Kirk (after Spock had announced a forced mate)

This is so true.

Never lose a pawn never lose a game.

"I'd rather have a pawn than a finger."
– Reuben Fine

"It all depends: which pawn and which finger?"
– Roman Dzindzichashvili

"A chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!"

- Tartakower

Great quote! lol

Without error there can be no brilliancy.  -  Emanuel Lasker

I like to make them squirm.-Bobby Fischer

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make man happy.  -Siegbert Tarrasch

Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess.  -  Siegbert Tarrasch

"Adequate compensation for a sacrifice is having a sound combination leading to a winning position: adequate compensation for a blunder is having your opponent snatch defeat from the jaws of victory"

Bruce A. Moon

man that is a pretty awesome quote by Tarrasch

"Is it against the law to kill a reporter?"
- Bobby Fischer

"You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela."
- Che Guevara

"The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess."

- H.G. Wells

It is always better to sacrifice your opponent's men- Tarkatower

From Austin Powers, The Spy Who Shagged Me:

Ivona "Do you know how we keep warm in Russia?"
Austin "I can guess, baby."
Ivona "We play chess."
Austin "I guessed wrong."

Not all artists are chess players, but every chess player is an artist-Marcel Dunchamp.

Yeah,ur right.The site from which i got it misprinted it seems,thnx though for telling.

ok that was what i ment then

Careful. We don't want to learn from this.
- Calvin

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction..."
- General Douglas MacArthur

"To me, chess is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers kill each other." - ?

"It is no time to be playing Chess when the house is on fire."- Italian Proverb

"All women are inferior to men."
- Garry Kasparov

"My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible." - Dave Barry

"A man that will take back a move at chess will pick a pocket."
– Richard Fenton

Why did u delete and repost the same thing?