Top 10 Chess Quotes

1. INDIAN PROVERB

"Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe"

2. Irving CHERNEV

"Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess."

3. Andrew SOLTIS

"Pawns are born free, yet are everywhere in chains..."

4. Richard RETI

"It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position."

5. Alexander ALEKHINE

"During a chess competition a chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk."

6. William LOMBARDY

"All openings are sound below master level."

7. Richard RETI

"Now we see wherein lies the pleasure to be derived from a chess combination. It lies in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game dominating the inanimate pieces with which the game is carried on, and giving them the breath of life."

8. Mortimer COLLINS

"There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play chess."

9. Raymond CHANDLER in The Long Goodbye

" as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency."

10. Savielly TARTAKOWER

10. "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... when you know you're going to lose!"

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