To play for a draw, at any rate with white, is to some degree a crime against chess.
Mikhail Tal
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A deep dark forest where 2+2=5
You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.
Mikhail Tal
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A terrible game
Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!
Siegbert Tarrasch
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An extreme sport
To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires thinking.
(The New Land)
Ljupka Cvetanova
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But that is the fault of life, not Chess
Of Chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not Chess.
William Ewart Napier
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Great chessplayer
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
(Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners)
William Hazlitt
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Men who find chess fascinating
We are men who find chess fascinating. Did you expect our lives to be secretly interesting?
(Agent X)
Noah Boyd
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Mental torture
Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov
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No Chess Grandmaster is normal
No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness.
Viktor Korchnoi
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That’s what Chess is all about
That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.
Bobby Fischer
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The most necessary characteristic
Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player.
Siegbert Tarrasch
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The next-to-last mistake
The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
Savielly Tartakover
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Three stages
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!
Savielly Tartakower
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Two types of sacrifices
There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones, and mine.
Mikhail Tal
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Very simple truth
Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent.
Mikhail Tal
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Wasting time
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.