Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty – Dominic Lawson
This is totally unsound and should never be tried! – Raymond Keene
Some part of a mistake is always correct – Savielly Tartakover
What would Chess be without silly mistakes? – Kurt Richter
The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake – Savielly Tartakover
Without error there can be no brilliancy – Emanuel Lasker
Some sacrifices are sound; the rest are mine – Mikhail Tal
We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature – Rudolf Spielman
What is the object of playing a gambit opening? To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing the game – Siegbert Tarrasch
In the laboratory, gambits all test unfavorably; but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board – William Napier
You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one – Mikhail Tal
The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth. In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel, we with maturing experience leave off gambit playing and become interested in the less vivacious but withal more forceful maneuvers of the position player – Emanuel Lasker
A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused – Rudolph Spielmann
A player surprised is half beaten – Proverb
You need not play well - just help your opponent to play badly – Genrikh Chepukaitis
Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent – Mikhail Tal
A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror – Wilhelm Steinitz
The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made – Savielly Tartakover
Adequate compensation for a sacrifice is having a sound combination leading to a winning position; adequate compensation for a blunder is having your opponent snatch defeat from the jaws of victory – Bruce A. Moon
No; the Jerome gambit is not named after St. Jerome. His penances, if he did any, were in atonement of rather minor transgressions compared with the gambit – Emanuel Lasker
(Thanks to chess-poster.com for their cache of chess quotes.)
