Quotes about Chess

My father said, 'When in doubt, castle.'

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the Laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.

The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.

Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.

Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.