Famous Chess Quotes   "Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles" -Garry Kasparov "Chess is a test of wills" -Paul Keres "Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic" -Mikhail Botvinnik "Chess is life " -Bobby Fischer "Chess is a fight" -Emanuel Lasker "Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and excludes chance " -Richard Reti "Chess is the art of analysis" -Mikhail Botvinnik "Chess is not only knowledge and logic " -Alexander Alekhine "Chess is everything - art, science and sport " -Anatoly Karpov "Chess is imagination" -David Bronstein "Chess is not for timid souls " -Willheim Steinitz "Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe" - Indian Proverb "A good player is always lucky." - J.R. Capablanca "There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine."  - M. Tal "Modern chess is too much concerned with things like pawn structures.  Forget it -- checkmate ends the game." - N. Short "A chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope  you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have the advantage and the third...when you know you are going to lose!"  - S. Tartakower "During a chess competition a chess master should be the Combination of a beast of prey and a monk." - A Alekhine "Excellence at chess is one mark of the scheming mind." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard but that does not prove you are the better player." - English Proverb "Nowadays, if you are not a GM by age 14, you can forget about it." - V. Anand "Chess is a test of wills." -P. Keres "Chess is not only knowledge and logic."  - A. Alekhine "Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy. " - Tarrasch "Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all. " - Mikhail Chigorin "Chess is a creative process. Its purpose is to find the truth. To discover the truth, you must be uncompromising. You must be brave." - Pandolfini  "Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work."   - Botvinnink  "Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess" - Garry Kasparov "There just isn't enough televised chess." -David Letterman "When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war." - Aristotle "Not all artists may be chess players, but all chess players are artists." - Marcel Duchamp "Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shaking the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer." - Albert Einstein "You can only get good at chess if you love the game." - Bobby Fischer "Life is a kind of chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events." - Benjamin Franklin "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 and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions for life is a kind of Chess, in which we have points to gain, and competition or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence, or want of it. By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First, Foresight... Second, Circumspection... Third, Caution... And lastly, We learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources." -Benjamin Franklin "The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomenon 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." - T.H. Huxley "Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble." - Stanley Kubrick "Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity." - Vladimir Nabokov, 'Poems and Problems', 1969  "I played chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes, only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently." - Mark Twain, Life on Mississippi