Chess Rules Quotes

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

There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end.

The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.

The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.

Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?

The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.

You can't follow or understand the game unless you play chess yourself, unlike poker which you can pick up in five minutes.

For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.

If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty.

For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King.

Chess is, in essence, a game for children. Computers have exacerbated the trends towards youth because they now have an immensely powerful tool at their disposal and can absorb vast amounts of information extremely quickly.

In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.

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

On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.

In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.

A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.

You can't win the chess match if you don't have enough pieces.

Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.

In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.

When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.

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

Remember that the machine is there to help you, because at the end of the day, you're not playing freestyle chess, advanced chess, human-plus-machine. If you are playing against other humans, it's about winning the game. The machine will not be assisting you, unless you are cheating of course. And since the machine is not there, you have to make sure that everything you learn from the computer will not badly affect the way you play the real game.