What is your favorite chess quote?

Internet Chess -- A method of playing chess in which you pay a monthly fee, tie up your phone line, only to play your neighbor across the street.

- Ed Collins, in 1998  (it won 1st place in an online contest)

I had a thought along that wisdom.  What if all these games are just playing a neighbor (online).   

e4,is best by test.

How did people ever play their neighbors before internet? Amazing the way technology liberates us!

I drink your milkshake.

Alekhine once told a border policeman: "I am Alexander Alekhine, Chess Champion of the World! I have a cat named Chess. Papers? I don't need any papers."

what astonishing me is the part where he says " i have a cat named chess"

yes chess is a waste of life, i just use it to compensate for my lack of money and luxurious lifestyle.

my favourite

lol

Assault that should be quote of the day

(referring to just before the first move) "The mistakes are all there, just waiting to be made." Tartakower

Didn't he also squeeze the Sharman?

"Every failed idea has some truth in it"  - Dont remember who said it.

i dont know the exact same quote and i cant find it on the net, it was from Tartakover and goes something like: "black has the advantage because white has the obligation to make the first mistake"

"The main advantage of the King's Gambit is that there are so many refutations that he can't play them all at once, and he has to decide which one to play, and then he loses on time."

- Nigel Short

''The highest art of the chessplayer lies in not allowing your opponent to show you what he can do.'' Kasparov

"Bobby Fischer is the only American who can get everyone in the US to root for the Russians." A Washington Post reader in 1972.

"Spassky, Tal, those guys are good, but I think Petrosian is better than all of them. His problem is too many draws. He draws against opponents he could beat easily. Maybe it's because he lacks self-confidence."

-Bobby Fischer

Well, that wasn't the exact quote. Here's the exact quote

"It’s difficult to say. Botvinnik and Tal are among the best; I also like Spassky, but I think Petrosian is better than all of them. His weakness is too many draws, even against players he could beat easily. Maybe he lacks self-confidence."

Now another one of my favorites

"In chess one can lose with age the strength and fullness of one’s vision, sureness in the order of one’s moves, resistance to fatigue, etc., but one never loses one’s judgment, and I imagine I still possess it . ... Precise positional judgment, the overall vision of every maneuver in the interdependence of its cogwheels, is what characterizes a great master. It is not a question of a great master seeing any number of isolated moves or of his knowing how to construct a mate; all that is to be taken for granted. What counts is that he should have ideas, and that these ideas should be accurate. That when he is shown any position he should not beat about the bush but should say without hesitation: “This is won, and the win is secured by maneuvering on this or that wing, like this.” I recall that during the Moscow, 1925 tournament – Tartakower often refers to this – various famous chessplayers had been studying a particular position for three hours, without being able to reach a conclusion. I was passing by at that moment and they asked me my opinion. I was not in doubt for a single second, and I told them: “This is won; and it is won like this, and this.” And I was not mistaken."

-Capablanca