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!"

Honourable mention: (After White takes another Pawn):
"They're like peanuts, you know." -- Stephan GERZADOWICZ

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