28 Motivational Chess Quotes & Sayings

In this collection, you will discover “28 Motivational Chess Quotes & Sayings“ by some of the greatest chess players of all time.

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8 Famous Chess Quotes By Greatest Player Of All Time

1. “Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.”

– Magnus Carlsen

2.“Confidence is very important – even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the mistake.”

– Viswanathan Anand

3.”I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.”

 Bobby Fischer

4.“I prefer to lose a really good game than to win a bad one.”

– David Levy

5.“Chess is life in miniature. Chess is a struggle, chess battles.”

– Garry Kasparov

6.“There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine”

– Mikhail Tal

7.“Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.”

– Hikaru Nakamura

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

8.“Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position”

 Anatoly Karpov

5 Chess Quotes About Life

1.”In life, as in chess, one’s own pawns block one’s way. A man’s very wealth, ease, leisure, children, and books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him.”

Charles Buxton

2.“Chess is life and every game is like a new life.”

Eduard Gufeld

3.“Life is like a game of chess. To win you need to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with insight and knowledge and by learning the lessons that are accumulated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called LIFE”

Alan Rufus

4.“In life, unlike chess the game continues after checkmate.”

Isaac Asimov

5.“No one has ever won a game of chess by taking only forward moves. Sometimes you have to move backwards in order to be able to take better steps forward. That is life.”

10 Motivational Chess Quotes & Sayings

1.“The hardest game to win is a won game.”

– Emanuel Lasker

2.“Chess is a fairy tale of 1,001 blunders.”

SaviellyTartakower

3.“Many have become chess masters, no one has become the master of chess.”

SiegbertTarrasch

4.“When your house is on fire, you cannot be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in chess, if your King is under attack, do not worry about losing a pawn on the queenside.”

– Garry Kasparov 

5.“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

6.“Chess makes men wiser and clear-sighted.”

– Vladimir Putin

7.“I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”

 Marcel Duchamp

8.“Learn to play many roles, to be whatever the moment requires. Adapt your mask to the situation.”

Robert Greene

9.“Chess is a war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent’s mind.”

– Bobby Fischer

“Chess is a war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent’s mind.” – Bobby Fischer
“Chess is a war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent’s mind.” – Bobby Fischer

10.“Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands.”

– Renaud & Kahn 

5 Chess Quotes About Losing

1.“The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.”

Savielly Tartakower

2.”When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.”

3.”Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all.”

Mikhail Chigorin

4.”If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win.”

5.”In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else.”

José Raúl Capablanca

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