Max Euwe Quotes

Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.

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

In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.

A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality.

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

I find the game mentally challenging and really enjoy the chess match that occurs every week between the offense and the opposing defense.

Chess is a game of stimulation.

Chess is not dominoes

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.

When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn.

Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate!

Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

War strategy is always unique. It is like a chess game. The pieces are always the same but each game is unique

I play football like chess. You have to think a lot and anticipate what could happen after you make your move.