On chess principles-
When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.
–Wilhelm Steinitz
Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.
-Wilhelm Steinitz
“You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.”
– Jose Raul Capablanca
“Tactics is knowing what to do when there’s something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there’s nothing what to do.”
– Savielly Tartakower
“When you see a good move, look for a better one.”
– Emanuel Lasker
Chess quotes On Life-
“Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.”
– Ralph Charell
“If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.”
– Garry Kasparov
“Chess makes men wiser and clear-sighted.”
– Vladimir Putin
“Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.”
– Hikaru Nakamura
Chess like love, like music, has the power to make man happy.
– Savielly Tartakower
Funny Chess Quotes-
“The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.”
– Savielly Tartakower
“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
“The pin is mightier than the sword.”
– Fred Reinfeld
“One bad move nullifies forty good ones.”
– Bernhard Horwitz
“It will be cheering to know that many people are skillful chess players, though in many instances their brains, in a general way, compare unfavorably with the cognitive faculties of a rabbit.”
– James Mortimer
“Those who say they understand chess, understand nothing”
– Robert Hübner
“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
“No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness”
– Viktor Korchnoi