
“To the angel of death, we are all like chess pieces on the chessboard.”
A collection of quotes on the topic of chess, game, gaming, play.
“To the angel of death, we are all like chess pieces on the chessboard.”
“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
Radio Interview, July 6 2001 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_18_1.MP3
2000s
Source: The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
Radio Interview, June 27 1999 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_08_3.MP3
1990s
“I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.”
Magnus Carlsen, chess prodigy from Norway - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/world/europe/01iht-profile.4.15806138.html?_r=1
“In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.”
Part II, Chapter 8, Exchanges And Imbalances, p. 102
2000s, How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
Quote from 'Time Magazine', 10 March 1952; as quoted on Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp
1951 - 1968
“These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.”
“Many have become Chess Masters, no one has become the Master of Chess.”
As quoted in Chess and Computers (1976) by David N. L. Levy, p. 40
Poe stating his arguments that Maelzel's Chess-Player was a hoax. Maelzel's Chess-Player http://www.eapoe.org/works/essays/maelzel.htm, Southern Literary Journal (April 1836).
Radio Interview, May 15 2005 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_34_3.MP3
2000s
“Life is a game of chess and you never really know when you are winning or losing.”
"La vida es una partida de ajedrez y nunca sabe uno a ciencia cierta cuándo está ganando o perdiendo."
Una muñeca rusa, 1991.
Radio Interview, October 16 2006 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_35_3.MP3
2000s
1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)
Interview on Chessdom, 2009 http://interviews.chessdom.com/anatoly-karpov-izvestia
1970s, BOBBY FISCHER SPEAKS OUT! (1977)
“The world is a game of chess; the loser loses and the winner wins.”
As quoted in Jamāḷ al-Dīn al-Afghāni: A Muslim intellectual (1984) by Anwar Moazzam, p. 3
“I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.”
Meet Magnus Carlsen, The New King of Chess - TIME, Eben Harrell Friday, Dec. 25, 2009 http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1948809,00.html
Talk titled "Language & Mind", 1997.
Quotes 1990s, 1995-1999
Interview by Brad Darrach for Life Magazine, 1971 http://www.bobby-fischer.net/Bobby_Fischer_Articles5.html
1970s
1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)
1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)
Press Conference, September 1 1992 http://www.bobby-fischer.net/Bobby_Fischer_Articles6.html
1990s
Radio Interview, October 16 2006 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_35_3.MP3
2000s
1970s, BOBBY FISCHER SPEAKS OUT! (1977)
Radio Interview, January 27 2002 http://en.chessbase.com/post/i-m-finished-with-the-old-che-it-s-rotten-to-the-core-
2000s
“Football is like chess, only without the dice.”
Fussball ist wie Schach, nur ohne Würfel.
Quoted in David Gordon Smith. "German Football's Greatest Sayings." http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/like-chess-only-without-the-dice-german-football-s-greatest-sayings-a-558638-druck.html Spiegel Online International. 6 October 2008. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
Interview on Chessbase 06.07.2005 http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2495
But then you play through the moves and it is not true at all. But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true, he said what he felt.
Radio Interview, October 16 2006 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_35_3.MP3
Radio Interview, January 27 2002 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_20_1.MP3
2000s
“To obey a rule, to make a report, to give an order, to play a game of chess, are customs”
uses, institutions
§ 199
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
“Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.”
“I failed to make the chess team because of my height.”
Source: America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
“Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds”
Source: Married By Morning
Source: Justify My Thug
As quoted in The Independent, Thursday 15 August 2013 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ukip-faces-renewed-accusations-of-sexism-as-stuart-wheeler-claims-women-are-not-as-competitive-as-men-8763570.html
See Victoria Coren for a reply.
Speaking at the Get Shamrocked Irish Festival (19 September 2014).
Interview at S'pore Chess News, 23 August 2010 http://www.singaporechessnews.com/interview_ashot_nadanian.html
But nobody protested. That made me feel triumphant and joyous.
Images : My Life in Films (1990)
“It [chess] is not only the most delightful and scientific, but the most moral of amusements.”
As quoted in Testimonials to Paul Morphy: Presented at University Hall, New York, May 25, 1859
Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology http://resourcecentre.daiict.ac.in/eresources/iresources/quotations.html,
Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess (1925), p. 338
Source: Information and Decision Processes (1960), p. viii-ix
"Putin's Russia: Don't Walk, Don't Eat, and Don't Drink" http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/putins-russia-dont-walk-dont-eat-and-dont-drink?intcid=mod-yml (28 May 2015), The New Yorker.
“With his death, we have lost a very great chess genius whose like we'll never see again.”
Quoted in: Edward G. Winter (1989) Capablanca: A Compendium of Games, Notes, Articles..., p. 307; on his great rival José Raúl Capablanca.
“Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player.”
The Game of Chess (1931), Pt. 2 : The End Game, p. 79
Game of thrones with world chess champion Viswanathan Anand
“Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXIII : Two Evenings; Helen to Walter
Tumiłowicz, Bronisław (February 2018): Zrób sobie mózg https://www.tygodnikprzeglad.pl/zrob-sobie-mozg/. Przegląd (6/2018): pp. 58–59.
“The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.”
As quoted in Martin Amis's review of "Kasparov-Short" by Raymond Keene, Independent on Sunday, November 1995.
1990s
“He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.”
As quoted in The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played : 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy (1965) by Irving Chernev, Game 18 : The Isolated Pawn, p. 81
a daily life quote, in Duchamp's letter to the Stettheimers family in New York, from Buenos Aires 3 Mai 1919; as quoted in The Duchamp Book, ed. Gavin Parkinson, Tate Publishing, London 2008 p. 159
1915 - 1925
“Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.”
Indianapolis v. Chase Nat'l Bank, 314 U.S. 63, 69 (1941).
Other writings
“Tournament chess is not relaxing. It's stressful, even if you win.”
ChessBase.com - The strongest native-born American woman" (3 August 2003) http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1093
S'pore Chess News, 7 September 2010 http://www.singaporechessnews.com/reflections_1.html
pages=292-93
Reimagining India: Unlocking the Potential of Asia’s Next Superpower
Henry James Byron, Our Boys (1875), Act I
Misattributed
As quoted in Testimonials to Paul Morphy: Presented at University Hall, New York, May 25, 1859 https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=aEZAAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA3
Blue Collar Comedy Tour, Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again (2004)
India became a sporting nation in the last decade: Kumble
“I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.”
The King's Gambit (2007)
Powers and Prospects, 1996 https://chomsky.info/prospects01/.
Quotes 1990s, 1995-1999