23 Funny Chess Aphorisms

Here is a collection of 23 funny chess aphorisms. It’s a continuation to the chess facts from the previous post, compliment to the chess jokes from the long time ago post and chess humor post. The first aphorism is: A brilliant combination had come to his mind, but didn’t find anyone there and left.

• He was in time trouble; he had 1/10 of a second left.
• If we say that we all learn from our own mistakes, that guy has unlimited improvement capabilities.
• Everybody can look at a chess position, but not many can see.
• He had a chess mind of a sprinter.
• One queen is good, but two is better.
• You don’t look at teeth of a given Knight.
• He said: When I’m checking my opponent, I’m fearless!
• Chess Problem: find the worst move (??)
• He was a famous chess player for a long time, but no one knew about it.
• He didn’t play chess, he played with chess.
• In the local chess club there was a portrait of Alekhine, who looked just like Capablanca, and a portrait of Capablancalooked like no one else.
• He was lefty and played well with white on the Queen’s side and with black on the King’s side.
• He had a good memory for bad openings and bad memory for good ones.
• Chess Problem: white takes back 40 moves and mate in 1.
• He attacks the opponent’s castled King, isolated weak pawns, but most importantly the opponent’s psychological state.
• Perpetual check feels like nothing else in a dead lost position.
• Isolated pawns require a very expensive therapy, for keeping them alive.
• Counter attack is never untimely.
• Material equal to ¾ of a pawn is also equivalent to about 3 tempis, which at the same time are identical to two weaker moves (by you).
• Mate is often exists with disagreement of the side to move.
• Why play 1.e2-e4 right away, when we can later, after long struggle and fighting play e3-e4 after 1.e2-e3?

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