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What are your favorite chess quotes?

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Life is too short for chess.
% (63 votes)
If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he’s worse off.
% (85 votes)
A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.
% (55 votes)
Chess, like love, is infectious at any age. 
% (18 votes)
Chess is 99 percent tactics.
% (37 votes)
Chess is the struggle against error.
% (48 votes)
Chess is the only game greater than its players.
% (43 votes)
The only thing chess players have in common is chess.
% (34 votes)
1. e4 best by test
% (96 votes)
It is better to lose a really good game than to win a bad one
% (96 votes)
You cannot play at chess if you are kind-hearted.
% (20 votes)
A good player is always lucky
% (56 votes)
It’s always better to sacrifice your opponent’s men
% (66 votes)
The Pin is mightier than the sword
% (57 votes)
The Queen is the worst piece to block an enemy pawn.
% (14 votes)
Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.
% (21 votes)
When you see a good move wait - look for a better one.
% (133 votes)
Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands!
% (23 votes)
Chess is not for the timid.   
% (9 votes)
Every chessplayer should have a hobby.
% (41 votes)
He who fears an isolated Queen’s Pawn should give up chess
% (16 votes)
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders
% (19 votes)
Blitz chess kills your ideas.
% (32 votes)
To play for a draw is a great crime against chess
% (56 votes)
No price is too great for the scalp of the enemy King
% (34 votes)
A knight on the rim is dim.
% (65 votes)
It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well
% (38 votes)
The most important feature of the chess position is the activity of the pieces.
% (18 votes)
Chess is mental torture.
% (46 votes)
The most powerful weapon in chess is to have the next move
% (28 votes)
Win with grace, lose with dignity.
% (42 votes)
An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.
% (6 votes)
Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the chess player
% (15 votes)
In blitz, the Knight is stronger than the Bishop
% (22 votes)
Be well enough prepared so that preparation won't play a role.
% (13 votes)
You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one
% (106 votes)
A pinned piece is not for the taking
% (25 votes)
Some part of a mistake is always correct
% (23 votes)
Nowadays, when you’re not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it.
% (37 votes)
Do you prefer chess or sex? - "It very much depends on the position."
% (169 votes)
Before the endgame, the gods have placed the middlegame.
% (21 votes)
Life is like a game of chess, changing with each move
% (13 votes)
I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
% (49 votes)
Winning isn’t everything... but losing is nothing
% (29 votes)
Chess is everything: art, science and sport
% (34 votes)
There is nothing more precious than the bishop pair
% (15 votes)
A man that will take back a move at chess will pick a pocket.
% (35 votes)
Chess is like war on a board
% (24 votes)
All mates are checks but not all checks are mates
% (16 votes)
The blunders are all thereon the board, waiting to be made.
% (32 votes)
Chess is a matter of vanity.
% (9 votes)
Chess is life and every game is like a new life.
% (13 votes)
If the center is blocked, you are playing the wrong opening.
% (17 votes)
The threat is stronger than the execution
% (89 votes)
Nothing excites jaded grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty
% (16 votes)
On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not last long.
% (32 votes)
Not all artists are chess players, but all Chess players are artists
% (15 votes)
It is only necessary to see one move ahead as long as you find the best one.
% (44 votes)
You learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win
% (56 votes)
Many have become chess Masters, no one has become the Master of Chess
% (19 votes)
One doesn’t have to play well, it’s enough to play better than your opponent
% (44 votes)
Those who say they understand chess, understand nothing
% (24 votes)
The older I grow, the more I value pawns.
% (36 votes)
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... whenyou know you're going to lose
% (52 votes)
The difference between masters and amateurs is that masters know when to panic
% (40 votes)
The beauty of a move lies not in its' appearance but in the thought behind it
% (22 votes)
The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
% (66 votes)
In the game of chess, you must never let your adversary see your pieces
% (18 votes)
Pawns: they are the soul of this game, they alone form the attack and defense
% (18 votes)
You can only get good at chess if you love the game
% (18 votes)
When you lose, you really feel a sense of self. You actually feel that you are being taken apart, rather than just your pieces.
% (33 votes)
As long as an opening is reputed to be weak it can be played.
% (14 votes)
Of course the computer is just merciless.
% (23 votes)
Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack
% (14 votes)
The way he plays chess demonstrates a man’s whole nature.
% (23 votes)
Openings teach you openings. Endgames teach you chess!
% (35 votes)
The pawns are the soul of chess.
% (44 votes)
Castle because you must or because you want to. Never just because you can
% (30 votes)
Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology
% (12 votes)
Modern chess is too much concerned with things like pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game.
% (20 votes)
Its just you and your opponent at the board and you’re trying to prove something.
% (12 votes)
The King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
% (22 votes)
All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.
% (10 votes)
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time
% (28 votes)
We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a chess player’s nature.
% (18 votes)
To get squares, you gotta give squares
% (27 votes)
Chess is a battle between your aversion to thinking and your aversion to losing.
% (58 votes)
Help your pieces so they can help you
% (18 votes)
When two rooks can move to the same square, always move the other rook.
% (51 votes)
Always check... it might be mate!
% (23 votes)
I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings
% (29 votes)
Years of analysis and minutes of play are not quite the same thing.
% (10 votes)
Chess is not relaxing; it’s stressful even if you win.
% (45 votes)
Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
% (23 votes)
Mistakes are there to be made
% (12 votes)
Only sissies castle
% (30 votes)
Watch out for the tricky knights.
% (34 votes)
Chess is a battle between your aversion to thinking and your aversion to losing.
% (33 votes)
Tactics flow from a superior position
% (74 votes)
Even the laziest king flees wildly in the face of a double check.
% (16 votes)
What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game
% (23 votes)
No chess grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness.
% (20 votes)
A rook in front of a passed pawn has some explaining to do.
% (35 votes)
Without error there can be no brilliancy
% (18 votes)
In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game.
% (21 votes)
“Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine” (Tal)
% (83 votes)
Get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed.
% (10 votes)
Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess
% (9 votes)
The rook belongs to the 7th rank
% (26 votes)
The hardest game to win is a won game
% (59 votes)
My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes qI don’t take these things into consideration
% (18 votes)
Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine.
% (55 votes)
What is better than a passed pawn? A passed pawn on the edge.
% (8 votes)
Chess demands total concentration.
% (22 votes)
Nothing is more important in life than the fight for the center.
% (16 votes)
There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world.
% (15 votes)
When the chess game is over, the pawn and the king go back to the same box.
% (44 votes)
Every pawn is a potential Queen.
% (32 votes)
A bad day of chess is better than any good day at work
% (15 votes)
No one ever won a game by resigning
% (53 votes)
You need not play well - just help your opponent to play badly”
% (31 votes)
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient.
% (21 votes)
If you can accept losing, you can't win.
% (26 votes)
Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all.
% (56 votes)
Every move should have a purpose
% (39 votes)
Every chess master was once a beginner
% (34 votes)
Castle early and often
% (27 votes)
If the position is hopeless, look for dirty tricks
% (40 votes)
Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation
% (26 votes)
Every pawn move is a life decision
% (22 votes)
Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine.
% (32 votes)
Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.
% (5 votes)
In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame
% (26 votes)
Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half.
% (19 votes)
Chess isn't 99% tactics, it's just that tactics takes up 99% of your time
% (34 votes)
The Queen is too precious to win a pawn with
% (9 votes)
Chess is as much a mystery as women
% (15 votes)
Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
% (19 votes)
A master looks at every move he would like to make, especially the impossible ones.
% (23 votes)
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
% (7 votes)
Chess is not like life... it has rules!
% (17 votes)
If you can't win, make sure you don't lose.
% (34 votes)
What would chess be without silly mistakes?
% (18 votes)
One bad move nullifies forty good ones.
% (94 votes)
One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.
% (41 votes)
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