40 Chess Quotes That Will Teach Important Lessons for Your Life

1. "In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth." - Edmar Mednis

2. "Chess is everything: art, science, and sport." - Anatoly Karpov

3. "Win with grace, lose with dignity!" - Susan Polgar

4. "Every Chess master was once a beginner" - Irving Chernev

5. “When you see a good move, look for a better one.” - Emanuel Lasker

6. "The future belongs to he who has the bishops." - Siegbert Tarrasch

7. "Chess is not only knowledge and logic" - Alexander Alekhine

8. "Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted." - Vladimir Putin

9. "Chess taught me patience." - Yuzvendra Chahal

10. "The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions." - Emanuel Lasker

11. "Chess first of all teaches you to be objective." - Alexander Alekhine

12. "Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player" - Siegbert Tarrasch

13. "Chess is a cure for headaches." - John Maynard Keynes

14. "Without error there can be no brilliancy" - Emanuel Lasker

15. "To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game-" - Savielly Tartakower

1. "Good positions don't win games, good moves do" - Gerald Abrahams

2. "Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life" - E. M. Forster

3. "By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ... A combination produces an unexpected re-assessment of values." - Emanuel Lasker

4. "The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time." - Marilyn vos Savant

5. "Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won." - Bent Larsen

6. "The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost." - Viktor Korchnoi

7. "That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one" - Bobby Fischer

8. "Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events." - Benjamin Franklin

9. "Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression." - Reuben Fine

10. "Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training." - Vladimir Kramnik

11. "If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw" - Jeremy Silman

12. "In chess, you have to bring all the pieces into the game. It is about development. In writing, you have to develop the story." - Gza

1. “Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2. "Life is a chess match. Every decision that you make has a consequence to it." - P.K. Subban

3. "Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions." - Hikaru Nakamura

4. "Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment." - Garry Kasparov

5. "Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles." - Garry Kasparov

6. "The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity." - Joshua Waitzkin

7. "In chess you try to do your best, but there are instances where you make mistakes or you try and take risks that you shouldn't. And I think losing games is a good thing, because you learn more from when you lose than when you win." - Hikaru Nakamura

8. "If you have made a mistake or committed an inaccuracy there is no need to become annoyed and to think that everything is lost. You have to reorientate yourself quickly and find a new plan in the new situation." - David Bronstein

9. "You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player." - Jose Raul Capablanca

10. "First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game" - Siegbert Tarrasch

11. "In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this." - Vladimir Kramnik

12. "If you never give up and you strive hard and focus on every move like a chess game, you will make it. I believe that wholeheartedly." - Coy Bowles

13. "One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent" - Siegbert Tarrasch