Chess Game Quotes

“In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ...
It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.”
― Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

“I think about a deserted chessboard. Only the white king on it, standing on the home square. Alone, untethered, safe from threats. Free to roam.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

“Quando si sposta il cavallo alla terza mossa significa che si hanno intenzioni bellicose.”
― Guenassia Jean-Michel

“Divided - No tides of time or distance will wash away your step. It does not fleet as they do, those gladiators and their mighty spears or the beasts that howl into the dark for release.
Our story carves deeper, pitilessly, infinitely. A wound that bleeds the ink that stained your palm and the tears of an impossible tomorrow.”
― RJ Arkhipov

“The Offing - And if the sky itself, no matter its hue, were to fracture... What then? Would I then know freedom's name?

In my wake lies the shore—a past where I had been happy—refusing to yield to the tide. Before me, upon the horizon, is the sun... hesitant... inert... A new day cannot rise if its ancestor does not fall. Am I but a pawn in this game? I cannot command the sun to set, nor will the moon to take its place and wash the shore away. That power belongs to kings.

To drown in the offing.
Such sovereign beauty. Such exquisite pain.”
― RJ Arkhipov

“...why did you stick with me?”

“That’s easy, Alice,” he said. His amber eyes melted into hers. “It’s the first rule of chess: always protect your queen.”
― J.M. Sullivan, Alice

“What Will Linger/Hollow of Him - They crept so quietly back. Mere hints of words, at first, then whispers in the loud echoing a winter past. In this place, hollow of Him, his poetry resounded. I could almost taste the fragments of the worlds he had discovered. I remember the ache in his words; you could see each syllable smoulder in his gaze.”
― RJ Arkhipov

“And whatever happens next, I know that I am changed. I can no longer defend a king who doesn’t
value me, the pawn who faces the enemy front lines. I can no longer fight for my own virtue, a knight who
wields her sword in service. And I can no longer hide behind the walls of Gabriel’s castle. I’m a queen in
my own right, whether I fall or fight another day, whatever my next move, wherever I land. I have the
whole board to consider, every direction available. My fate may not decide the game, but I can go
anywhere I want.
The queen has freedom the king does not. She decides her own fate”
― Sky Warren

“War is not just about to shoot the gun and kill, it's a real chess game”
― Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"

“One-night stands are like chess, only the loser desires a rematch.”
― Jack Freestone

“Behind every move I make on the chess board lies a story of calculation, intuition, and passion. With every game, I discover more about myself and the endless possibilities of the game”
― medicosaurabh

“In chess you're only really ever as good as the person you play against.”
― Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed

“The 32 Society by Stewart Stafford

Fight to the last piece, they said,
Icons of state bring up the rear,
Grunt pawn's first blood duty,
Let the board's body count commence.

Equine knight in dog-legged battle,
Warrior bishop's angular support,
Scorpion's claw pincer movement,
Then, the trap slams mercilessly shut.

The field wiped clean of combatants,
The aristocracy's barren playground,
Royals tour their chequered court,
Pieces reassembled as war restarts.

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The master does not care where the game begins but where it ends”
― Saminu Kanti

“Chess bishops are not to be trifled with.”
― David Bronstein

“In life, everything’s a mess. But on the board? I see everything. You can have your fake smiles and loud wins — I’ll take my quiet checkmates.”
― medicosaurabh

“Chess: it is all about thinking, but not what everybody think it is.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Chess; it is all about thinking, but not what you think it is.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land