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Here are the best inspirational quotes and sayings for 2023 about leading through life that you can share on world chess day.
What Is Chess Sayings
1. “Chess is a fairy tale of 1,001 blunders” – Savielly Tartakower
2. “Chess is the struggle against the error” – Johannes Zukertort
3. “Chess is the gymnasium of the mind” – Blaise Pascal
4. “Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic” – Mikhail Botvinnik
5. “Chess is a war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent’s mind” – Bobby Fischer
6. “A chess game in progress is… a cosmos unto itself, fully insulated from an infant’s cry, an erotic invitation, or war” – David Shenk
7. “Chess is a cold bath for the mind” – Sir John Simon
8. “Chess is in its essence a game, in its form an art, and in its execution a science” – Baron Tassilo
Short Quotes About Chess
9. “There are no heroes in chess” – Cory Evans
10. “Chess makes men wiser and clear-sighted” – Vladimir Putin
11. “There is no remorse like the remorse of chess” – H. G. Wells
12. “Nobody ever won a chess game by resigning” – Savielly Tartakower
13. “Chess is above all, a fight!” – Emanuel Lasker
14. “Chess is everything: art, science and sport” – Anatoly Karpov
15. “Chess is the art of analysis” – Mikhail Botvinnik
16. “All that matters on the chessboard is good moves” – Bobby Fischer
Chess Quotes About Life
17. “The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it. Life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with” – Benjamin Franklin
18. “Chess is life in miniature. Chess is a struggle, chess battles” – Garry Kasparov
19. “Of chess, it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess” – William Napier
20. “Chess is not like life… it has rules!” – Mark Pasternak
21. “Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for” – Hans Ree
22. “Chess is life and every game is like a new life” – Eduard Gufeld
23. “Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every Chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime” – Eduard Gufeld
24. “The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature and the player on the other side is hidden from us” – Thomas Huxley
Funny Quotes About Chess
25. “Those who say they understand chess, understand nothing” – Robert Hübner
26. “There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world” – Pierre Mac Orlan
27. “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
28. “No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness” – Viktor Korchnoi
29. “A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket” – Richard Fenton
30. “The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess” – Lodewijk Prins
Quotes About The Beauty Of Chess
31. “Unlike other games in which lucre is the end and aim, chess recommends itself to the wise by the fact that its mimic battles are fought for no prize but honor. It is eminently and emphatically the philosopher’s game” – Paul Morphy
32. “The beauty of chess is it can be whatever you want it to be. It transcends language, age, race, religion, politics, gender, and socioeconomic background. Whatever your circumstances, anyone can enjoy a good fight to the death over the chess board” – Simon Williams
33. “Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer” – Albert Einstein
34. “Chess doesn’t drive people mad, it keeps mad people sane” – Bill Hartston
35. “When you’re lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war” – Aristotle
36. “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
37. “That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one” – Bobby Fischer
38. “Chess demolishes differences. It’s a language of different generations” – Judit Polgar
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