i am interested in chess quotes, stories etc... does anyone have any to share?

"checkers is for tramps"

"it is always better to sacrifice your oppenent's men"

"We like to think."

"bishops are prelates wearing horns...They move and take obliquely because nearly every bishop missues his office through cupidity"

Pope Innocent

If you have a good move,WAIT,you may find a better one

E4...Best by Test

the games of the great masters are not played by single moves,but by concerted plans of attack and defence.

"Chess,like Love,like Music,has the power to make men happy."

Openings teach you openings. Endgames teach you chess!

"Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; strategey is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do."

No fool can play chess and only fools do-german proverb

An article heading of his:"Has Karpov Lost his Marbles?".

His review of Eric Schiller's book Unorthodox Chess Openings: "Utter crap".

“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.”

“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.”