Short Chess Quotes & Sayings

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw ... — Nigel Short

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people. — Nigel Short

Life's too short for chess. — Henry James Byron

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game — Nigel Short

My opponent is Short and the match will be short. — Garry Kasparov

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company. — Nigel Short

Life's to short for chess. — Henry James Byron

Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a later date. The fact that even under such conditions he succeeded in becoming champion reveals a genius for chess which is nothing short of extraordinary. — Jose Raul Capablanca

Diabetes is passed that way
over and down, like a knight in chess. — Maile Meloy

You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself. — Alexander Alekhine

All I'm about is just the pen. — Pusha T

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol. — Nigel Short

Respect by silence is silence by respect.
Petra Hermans
October 23, 2016 — Petra Hermans

I just want to know...if I am special,' finished September, halfway between a whisper and a squeak. 'In stories, when someone appears in a poof of green clouds and asks a girl to go away on an adventure, it's because she's special, because she's smart and strong and can solve riddles and fight with swords and give really good speeches, and . . . I don't know that I'm any of those things. I don't even know that I'm as ill-tempered as all that. I'm not dull or anything, I know about geography and chess, and I can fix the boiler when my mother has to work. But what I mean to say is: Maybe you meant to go to another girl's house and let her ride on the Leopard. Maybe you didn't mean to choose me at all, because I'm not like storybook girls. I'm short and my father ran away with the army and I wouldn't even be able to keep a dog from eating a bird. — Catherynne M Valente

A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea is to deceive (the) public and to make short draws and go home. It's not true. It's a lie. — Boris Gelfand

Choose your battles. If rapid development is truly top priority, don't shackle your developers by insisting on too many priorities at once. — Steve McConnell

Life is too short for chess. — Lord Byron

I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them. — Nigel Short

Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy to recommend faith and not so easy to practise it. — Fred Reinfeld

Create life, that allow you to have a free flow from inside. This will happen when you improve your inner world and create life more out of understanding. — Roshan Sharma

Chess is, in essence, a game for children. Computers have exacerbated the trends towards youth because they now have an immensely powerful tool at their disposal and can absorb vast amounts of information extremely quickly. — Nigel Short

I cannot claim to thoroughly enjoy coaching, because it is very hard work if you are even moderately conscientious. Nevertheless it does provide a degree of satisfaction - not to mention a steady income, which is why I do it occasionally. — Nigel Short

If money or military might would change that part of the world ... we would have done it by now. Enough is enough. — Joe Manchin