History Quotes / Chess

-->-- '''Magnus Carlsen''', Sixteenth and current World Champion (2013-present), highest rated player in history

->''"Vimes had never got on with any game much more complex than darts. Chess in particular had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the kings lounged about doing nothing that always got to him; if only the pawns united, maybe talked the rooks round, the whole board could've been a republic in a dozen moves."''

->''"The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. [[SeriousBusiness It is the most absorbing of occupations, the least satisfying of desires, an aimless excrescence upon life]]. [[NightmareFuel It annihilates a man]]."''

->''"Chess is... a way of life, a passion."''

-->-- ''Discworld/{{Thud}}''

-->-- ''Discworld/SmallGods''

-->--'''Anatoly Karpov''', Twelfth World Champion (1975-1985)

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-->-- ''[[Discworld/{{Thud}} Thud!]]''

->''"If chess is a battle then Go is war."''

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->''"The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations, the least satisfying of desires, an aimless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man."''

-->-- '''Robert Burton''', Oxford University clergyman and [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/8/3/ libratorr]], 1621

-->-- '''Magnus Carlsen''', Sixteenth World Champion (2013-present), highest rated player in history

-->-- '''[[HGWells H.G. Wells]]'''

->''"It's easy to get obsessed with chess."''
-->-- '''Magnus Carlsen, highest rated player in history'''

-->-- '''Viswanathan Anand''', Fifteenth World Champion (2007-present), third highest ranked player in history

!!What is chess?

->''"Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game."''

-->-- '''Wilhelm Steinitz''', 1st World Champion

-->-- '''Mikhail Tal''', 8th World Champion

-->-- '''Boris Spassky''', 10th World Champion

-->-- '''Bobby Fischer''', 11th World Champion

-->--'''Anatoly Karpov''', 12th World Champion

-->-- '''Garry Kasparov''', 13th World Champion, 2nd highest ranked player in history

-->-- '''Vladimir Kramnik''', 14th World Champion

-->-- '''Viswanathan Anand''', 15th World Champion, third highest ranked player in history

-->-- '''Magnus Carlsen, 2nd highest rated player in history'''

-->-- '''Garry Kasparov''', 13th World Champion, highest ranked player in history

->''"The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations, the least satisfying of desires, an aimless excrescence upon life. [[NightmareFuel It annihilates a man]]."''

->''"Who goes first?"\\
"Well, that depends on the color of your pieces. Would you like to have the plain 'ol white ones... Orrr... would you '''instead''' choose to command the fiery red, scarlet brigade? Pieces of blazing prominence! Pieces that innately and unambiguously ooze power and confidence! Pieces that shout with each an every move, 'I am a '''Winner'''!'"\\
"Let me guess -- [[BriarPatching white goes first]]."''
-->'''Paige''' and '''Roger''', ''{{Foxtrot}}''

->''"Chess is a way of life, a passion."''

-->-- '''Vladimir Kramnik'', 14th World Champion

->''"Chess is like life."''
-->-- '''Boris Spassky''', 10th World Champion

->''"Chess is life."''
-->-- '''Bobby Fischer''', 11th World Champion

->''"Chess is mental torture."''
-->-- '''Garry Kasparov''', 13th World Champion, highest ranked player in history

->''"Chess is a way of life, a passion."''
-->-- '''Viswanathan Anand''', 15th World Champion, third highest ranked player in history

-->-- '''Garry Kasparov''', 13th World Champion

->''"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.""''

-> Vimes had never got on with any game much more complex than darts. Chess in particular had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the kings lounged about doing nothing that always got to him; if only the pawns united, maybe talked the rooks round, the whole board could've been a republic in a dozen moves.
-->-- '''[[Discworld/{{Thud}} Thud!]]'''

-> Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.
-->-- '''Discworld/SmallGods'''

-> If chess is a Battle then Go is War

-> Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box

->The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

->The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations, the least satisfying of desires, an aimless excrescence upon life. [[NightmareFuel It annihilates a man]].
--->-- '''[[HGWells H.G. Wells]]'''

->The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem. I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
--->-- '''Marcel Duchamp'''