Opening Moves Quotes

Chess is a matter of vanity.

Chess is not dominoes

Chess is one long regret.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

In chess there can never be a favorite move. I can probably pinpoint in a specific game, there might be a move that was like, "Oh, that was a good move." And maybe certain moves turned the whole game around, but there's not one special move that does that, unless it's checkmate because that's when the game is over.

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 foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.

Often, in the Ruy Lopez, one must be patient, wait and carry on a lengthy and wearisome struggle.

Moving first is a tactic, not a goal.

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

The game of chess. Supposedly men made it up, and it's about war and men and the ravages and the bravery and the genius of commanding and moving pieces and ... No. It's marriage. The Queen moves anywhere she wants.

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

I think death is the aesthetic part of chess, seeing your opponent's army fall. Producing a sacrifice in order to mate is the aesthetic part of it. It's a beautiful, bloodless war.

I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money

I grew up with 'Chess' and the music from the show.

The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.

Everybody uses computers to train so much now that the first nine or 10 moves of a match are made without thinking.