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西洋棋是一千零一盲棋怪談。
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders - Tartakower
西洋棋是漂亮的情婦。
Chess is a beautiful mistress. - Larsen
西洋棋如生命。
Chess is like life - Boris Spassky
西洋棋是萬物－藝術、科學和運動。
Chess is everything - art, science, and sport. - Karpov
西洋棋是九成九的戰術。
Chess is 99 percent tactics. - Teichmann
西洋棋真是九成九的計算。
Chess is really 99 percent calculation - Soltis
西洋棋是腦力撕殺。
Chess is mental torture. - Kasparov
西洋棋極殘忍：你要預備殺人。
Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people. - Nigel Short
西洋棋是一個蚊蚋能喝，大象能洗澡其中的海洋。
Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. - 印度諺語
西洋棋跟女人一樣高深莫測。
Chess is as much a mystery as women. - Purdy
西洋棋是分析的藝術
Chess is the art of analysis. - Botvinnik
西洋棋，如愛，如音樂，具使人快樂的能力。
Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy. - Tarrasch
仁慈者不能下西洋棋。
You cannot play at chess if you are kind-hearted. - 法國諺語
摩菲應該是最偉大的天才。
Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all. - Fischer
每位大師也曾是初學者。
Every chess master was once a beginner. - Chernev
生命太短於西洋棋。
Life is too short for chess. - Byron
好棋手永遠好運。
A good player is always lucky. - Capablanca
西洋棋的遊戲分三階段：一是你希望得優勢，二是你以為已得優勢，三是……你知道自己正在輸棋！
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! - Tartakower
西洋棋的遊戲完畢，兵和王都回到同一盒中。
When the chess game is over, the pawn and the king go back to the same box - Irish saying contributed by Etienne Goldstein
西洋棋的精通必包括準確的陣勢分析。
Chess mastery essentially consists of analysing chess positions accurately. - Botvinnik
當找到好棋，找更好的一步。
When you see a good move wait - look for a better one. - Emanuel Lasker
每一個局面內也隱藏了一個有可能的戰術組合。
A possible combination lies hidden in each position. - Chigorin
下開局如譜，下中局如法師，下殘局如機器。
Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine. - Spielmann
棋盤上的一切事情都是好棋。
All that matters on the chessboard is good moves. - Bobby Fischer
兵是西洋棋的靈魂。
The pawns are the soul of chess. - Philidor
比賽裏有一半己計算的變化後來發現是多餘的。不幸地，沒有人知道是那一半。
Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half - Jan Tinman
盲棋本在棋盤上，只等被走出來。
The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made. - Tartakover
無大於能剝掉敵王的代價。
No price is too great for the scalp of the enemy King. - Koblentz
倒數第二犯錯者為贏家。
The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Tartakover
受驚的人已敗一半。
A man surprised is half beaten. - Proverb
有兩種犧牲：正確那種和我那種。
There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine. - Tal
被串棋子的防禦力如同虛幻。
The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary. - Nimzovich
串尖於劍。
The pin is mightier than the sword. - Reinfeld
組合性的棋手向前想；他在提供的局面開始，嘗試腦海中強制的棋步。
The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind. - Emanuel Lasker
開將是棋盤上的深水炸彈。
Discovered check is the dive-bomber of the chessboard. - Fine
如學生逼自己試驗突擊的每一步，又先想荒唐的那些，他就正成為戰術大師。
If the student forces himself to examine all moves that smite, however absurd they may look at first glance, he is on the way to becoming a master of tactics. - Purdy
戰術是有所為時知其所為，戰略是無所為時知其所為。
Tactic is you know what to do when there is something to do, stratey is you know what to do when there is nothing to do. - Tatarkower
試驗突襲的棋步！尋得突襲的慧眼比戰略的原則更為重要。
Examine moves that smite! A good eye for smites is far more important than a knowledge of strategical principles. - Purdy
遊戲的大體建於局面性的線上；它的決定，一般來說，卻在於組合。
The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. - Reti
完美的西洋棋組合如一等的短篇故事，整個計劃和反計劃必引向驚人的結局，不到最後一刻，其興趣不會平伏。
In the perfect chess combination as in a first-rate short story, the whole plot and counter-plot should lead up to a striking finale, the interest not being allayed until the very last moment. - Yates and Winter
對典型殺棋接續貫徹始末的明白不但使最複雜的棄子組合變得不困難，更變得理所當然。
A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a matter of course. - Tarrasch
永遠最好犧牲對手的棋子。
It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men. - Tartakover
我重複的中局是西洋棋本身；西洋棋它的一切可能性、攻擊、防守、犧牲等等。
The middlegame I repeat is chess itself; chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc. - Znosko-Borovsky
殘局以前，上帝已寄予了中局。
Before the endgame, the gods have placed the middlegame. - Tarrasch
局面中的兌子必引至殺棋、吃子或兵升變。
Any material change in a position must come about by mate, a capture, or a Pawn promotion. - Purdy
每一隻兵也是潛在的后。
Every pawn is a potential Queen. - Mason
通路兵是重犯，應制以枷鎖。溫和的方法，如警察的監督，並不足夠。
The Passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient. - Nimzovich
愈多棋子從盤上消失通路兵愈顯威力。
A Passed Pawn increases in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. - Capablanca
差計劃好過無計劃。
Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all. - Mikhail Chigorin
你必須找的不是一步棋，就算最好的一步也不是，而是一個合理的計劃。
It is not a move, even the best move, that you must seek, but a realisable plan. - Znosko-Borovsky
在西洋棋中有系統思想比靈感更有用。
Methodical thinking is of more use in chess than inspiration. - Purdy