322 Quotes About Chess

I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by a the elaborate frivolity of chess.

Zugzwang. It's when you have no good moves. But you still have to move.

У нас есть шахматы с собой,Шекспир и Пушкин, с нас довольно.

Better I won't answer on this question, I think it's useless so far the future is that it will go in conflict how I know this?It's a tactic taken from chess!

Chess Tactics are important in the study.... I don't know about that but I know that this son of biatch beats me on chess games and on chess tactics puzzles he sucks!

Off.. offf leave the game in my hands if I am going to lose I wanna lose without special help, what you are saying is crap... castle, castle, castle in chess is important... fuck off that guy won without even castling.

Life is a mysterious and witty intermingling of fate and events

To play for a draw, at any rate with white, is to some degree a crime against chess.

I have just spent the better part of a week sorting out the miasma of lunatic alibis known as your correspondence in an effort to adjust matters, that our game may be finished simply once and for all.