322 Quotes About Chess

How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.

If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white.

Checkers is for tramps.

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

Today, some chess games can't go in 40 minutes. One game not every time can finish fast, sometimes it's difficult to win and the ways are odd.

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present.JOURNALIST. And your plans.PLAYER. To play!

If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being shoved at some rook. I'll play my part, damn it, but I want the courtesy of being asked for my consent!

The King in chess is indeed a symbol of unity and wholeness and the other pieces are not separate entities but rather parts of “the One Thing”, as Campbell put it.