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Quotes about Chess
LIFE, AS IN CHESS
If you think about it all the king is, is a glorified pawn
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SUCCEEDS IN MASTERING THIS SITUATION."
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We learn little from victory,
much from defeat.
— Japanese Proverb
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Chess is everything: art, science, and sport. Votes: 6
Anatoly Karpov
Chess is, above all, a fight. Votes: 5
Chess is the gymnasium of the mind. Votes: 5
Every Chess master was once a beginner Votes: 5
Irving Chernev
Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time! Votes: 5
Alexander Kotov
Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration Votes: 5
Cecil Purdy
You can only get good at Chess if you love the game Votes: 5
Bobby Fischer
Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind Votes: 5
All I want to do, ever, is play chess. Votes: 4
These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess. Votes: 4
Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego. Votes: 4
Chess is imagination. Votes: 3
David Bronstein
Chess is 99 percent calculation. Votes: 3
Andrew Soltis
Chess is intellectual gymnastics. Votes: 3
Wilhelm Steinitz
Chess demands total concentration Votes: 3
Chess is a meritocracy. Votes: 3
Lawrence Day
Chess is for everybody. Votes: 3
Patrick Wolff
Chess is mental torture. Votes: 3
Chess is not dominoes Votes: 3
Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue. Votes: 3
Richard Reti
Chess is one long regret. Votes: 3
Chess isn't football or hockey. Votes: 3
Mikhail Tal
Chess is a beautiful mistress. Votes: 3
Bent Larsen
There just isn't enough televised Chess Votes: 3
Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted. Votes: 3
Chess is a natural cerebral high. Votes: 3
Walter Browne
Chess is the touchstone of intellect. Votes: 3
Chess is a cure for headaches. Votes: 3
Chess is not for timid souls. Votes: 3
Chess is the art of analysis. Votes: 3
Mikhail Botvinnik
Chess is a matter of vanity. Votes: 3
Alexander Alekhine
Chess is not for the timid. Votes: 3
Chess is a test of wills. Votes: 3
Paul Keres
Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone Votes: 3
Miguel Najdorf
Chess you don't learn, chess you understand. Votes: 3
Viktor Korchnoi
What would Chess be without silly mistakes? Votes: 3
Kurt Richter
Chess is a miniature version of life. Votes: 3
Susan Polgar
Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics. Votes: 3
G. H. Hardy
Computers have changed the World of Chess. Votes: 3
Chess and theatre often lead to madness. Votes: 3
Fernando Arrabal
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. Votes: 3
Savielly Tartakower
Most innovative little board game since Chess. Votes: 3
Michael A. Stackpole
Chess is most certainly not my life. Votes: 3
Tony Miles
All Chess players should have a hobby Votes: 3
Chess is a fathead and feudal game. Votes: 3
Chess is like war on a board Votes: 3
Chess is not only knowledge and logic Votes: 3
Chess is a game of bad moves. Votes: 3
Chess is a sad waste of brains. Votes: 3
Chess is a sport. A violent sport. Votes: 3
Chess is a curse upon a man. Votes: 3
Chess is a matter of daily training. Votes: 3
Chess is not a game, but a disease. Votes: 3
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Chess is a cold bath for the mind Votes: 3
Chess, like love, is infectious at any age. Votes: 3
Salo Flohr
Chess is eminently and emphatically the philospher's game. Votes: 3
Paul Morphy
Those who say they understand Chess, understand nothing Votes: 3
Robert Hubner
Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost. Votes: 3
Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation. Votes: 3
Chess is the only game greater than its players. Votes: 3
Chess cannot be taught. Chess can only be learned. Votes: 3
Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for. Votes: 3
Hans Ree
There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess Votes: 3
In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth Votes: 3
Edmar Mednis
Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. Votes: 3
Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately Votes: 3
Chess is a good mistress but a bad master. Votes: 3
Gerald Abrahams
Chess is an art and not a spectator sport. Votes: 3
Chess will always be the master of us all. Votes: 3
The hardest game to win is a won game Votes: 3
Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player Votes: 3
Siegbert Tarrasch
Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated. Votes: 3
Chess is not relaxing; it's stressful even if you win. Votes: 3
Jennifer Shahade
The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature Votes: 3
Stanley Ellin
Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic. Votes: 3
Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf Votes: 3
I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves Votes: 3
Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory. Votes: 3
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Chess is and will always be a game of chance. Votes: 3
Jan Hein Donner
Chess is my life, but my life is not chess. Votes: 3
The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess. Votes: 3
Lodewijk Prins
The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master Votes: 3
The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is. Votes: 3
He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess Votes: 3
Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles Votes: 3
Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit. Votes: 3
Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research. Votes: 3
Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies. Votes: 3
Jamie Murphy
Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Votes: 3
Eduard Gufeld
Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people. Votes: 3
Nigel Short
Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury Votes: 3
Mig Greengard
Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance. Votes: 3
In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated. Votes: 3
Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization. Votes: 3
Samuel Reshevsky
I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses Votes: 3
Ronald Gross
FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title. Votes: 3
Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy. Votes: 3
Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves. Votes: 3
Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists Votes: 3
The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move Votes: 3
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another. Votes: 3
Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative. Votes: 3
Christian Morgenstern
Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular. Votes: 3
Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect. Votes: 3
The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner. Votes: 3
Howard Staunton
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent Votes: 3
Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events. Votes: 3
There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose! Votes: 3
Boris Spassky
In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent. Votes: 3
Vasily Smyslov
Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency Votes: 3
By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution. Votes: 3
Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance Votes: 3
A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket Votes: 3
Richard Fenton
No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness Votes: 3
Chess isn't a game of speed, it is a game of speech through actions Votes: 3
Matt Selman
Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess Votes: 3
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind. Votes: 3
The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world Votes: 3
Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever Votes: 3
Dave Regis
Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck. Votes: 3
If u want to work in Corporate, then u should know how to play Chess. Votes: 3
honeya
Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time. Votes: 3
A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes. Votes: 3
Jose Raul Capablanca
Chess is not something that drives people mad; it is something that keeps mad people sane. Votes: 3
William Hartston
For surely of all the drugs in the world, Chess must be the most permanently pleasurable Votes: 3
Heinrich Fraenkel
Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy. Votes: 3
Vitali Klitschko
The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture. Votes: 3
Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression. Votes: 3
Reuben Fine
Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways. Votes: 3
Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game Votes: 3
A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player Votes: 3
Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists Votes: 3
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. Votes: 3
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life Votes: 3
Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline Votes: 3
Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory. Votes: 3
Max Euwe
Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight. Votes: 3
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. Votes: 3
Emo Philips
I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess Votes: 3
Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized... Votes: 3
During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk Votes: 3
The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game. Votes: 3
We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature Votes: 3
Rudolf Spielmann
Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her. Votes: 3
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport. Votes: 3
Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.' Votes: 3
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art. Votes: 3
Life is like playing the game of Chess against yourself, to win you must beat the blacks of you. Votes: 3
Hassaan Ali
Chess is a time game, it's a game of patience. That pretty much defines how I run the ball. Votes: 3
Priest Holmes
Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts. Votes: 3
Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality. Votes: 3
Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it Votes: 3
Judit Polgar
When I have White, I win because I am white; When I have Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov Votes: 3
Nikolay Bogolyubov
Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general. Votes: 3
Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing. Votes: 3
Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player. Votes: 3
Lev Polugaevsky
The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do. Votes: 3
The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix. Votes: 3
Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements. Votes: 3
Most Debunkers spent their money on actual things, rather than just buying anything they could swallow, smoke or snort. Unlike Chess. Votes: 3
Stacia Kane
Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely. Votes: 3
Chess reflects the real world in miniature. Endeavor, struggle, success, and defeat - they are part of each game ever played. Votes: 3
Bruce Pandolfini
Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat. Votes: 3
Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy. Votes: 3
Luke McShane
That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one Votes: 3
Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game. Votes: 3
We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions. Votes: 3
Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game. Votes: 3
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. Votes: 3
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time Votes: 3
Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player Votes: 3
Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player. Votes: 3
You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport. Votes: 3
Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result. Votes: 3
Michael Basman
Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated. Votes: 3
Levon Aronian
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient Votes: 3
Aron Nimzowitsch
Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion Votes: 3
For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime. Votes: 3
Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer. Votes: 3
Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win. Votes: 3
I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently Votes: 3
Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess. Votes: 3
William Ewart Napier
Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents. Votes: 3
When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war Votes: 3
Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money Votes: 3
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. Votes: 3
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! Votes: 3
Once upon a time supporters of the Steinitz-Tarrasch school had a very high opinion of a queen-side pawn majority. Modern strategy on the other hand categorically denies that such a majority is an independent factor of any importance. Votes: 3
People who want to improve should take their defeats as lessons, and endeavor to learn what to avoid in the future. You must also have the courage of your convictions. If you think your move is good, make it. Votes: 3
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas. Votes: 3
To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires thinking. Votes: 2
Ljupka Cvetanova
All women are inferior to men Votes: 1
A relationship is a game of chess. Votes: 1
The Pin is mightier than the sword Votes: 1
Fred Reinfeld
I don't simply create probabilities, I guide them. Votes: 1
Lionel Suggs
Even a pawn can take down a queen. Votes: 1
Chanda Hahn
The move is there, but you must see it. Votes: 1
Living together/ is one move closer/ to living apart Votes: 1
Kristi Maxwell
When the end comes, I will meet it raging. Votes: 1
I like the moment when I break a man's ego Votes: 1
There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones, and mine. Votes: 1
When you see a good move, look for a better one Votes: 1
I failed to make the chess team because of my height. Votes: 1
Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting. Votes: 1
Life is more than just chess.Though king dies, life goes on. Votes: 1
I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all. Votes: 1
Aleksandar Hemon
To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking. Votes: 1
I'm playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers, that's why I always lose Votes: 1
Josh Stern
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. Votes: 1
Zugzwang. It's when you have no good moves. But you still have to move. Votes: 1
Some guys live in worlds where pawns stay pawns. I'm one move from king. Votes: 1
Darnell Lamont Walker
If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white. Votes: 1
Zenna Henderson
I want to be an aggressive player;One who always find joy in every move. Votes: 1
Kenneth de Guzman
Her sigh felt dragged from the depths of her soul. Great. Working for Bump again. Votes: 1
With magic almost anything was possible; all objects had energy, and energy could be manipulated. Votes: 1
Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life Votes: 1
Martin Dansky
How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules. Votes: 1
Caroline Stevermer
We are men who find chess fascinating. Did you expect our lives to be secretly interesting? Votes: 1
Noah Boyd
People, she was discovering, were like cockroaches: If you allowed one in, more were sure to follow. Votes: 1
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. Votes: 1
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. Votes: 1
My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible Votes: 1
To play for a draw, at any rate with white, is to some degree a crime against chess. Votes: 1
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. Votes: 1
Life is like playing the game of chess against yourself, to win, you must beat the blacks of you. Votes: 1
Pawns are such fascinating pieces, too...So small, almost insignificant, and yet--they can depose kings. Don't you find that interesting? Votes: 1
When I am white I win because I am white. When I am black I win because I am Bogoljubov Votes: 1
Efim Bogoljubov
Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective. Votes: 1
Crystal Woods
Love is like a chess match, where the queen wins the game and the king just sort of stands around. Votes: 1
The art of chess is akin to the art of war itself; full of strategy and cunning, yet clever placements. Votes: 1
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move. Votes: 1
Josh Waitzkin
It was her problem, and she'd deal with it. Because dealing with personal problems was so fucking high on her list of skills. Votes: 1
Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen. Votes: 1
Kate Bernheimer
Then again, she had-through a bizarre combination of skill, dumb luck and incredible misfortune-managed to build up a file any Debunker would envy. Votes: 1
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved. Votes: 1
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along. Votes: 1
Sure. Focused. Let's totally ignore any possible other avenues and just tunnel-vision our way along. Maybe we'll get lucky and blunder into a Lamaru hangout, right? Votes: 1
In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this. Votes: 1
Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the universe. Votes: 1
I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing. Votes: 1
Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts. Votes: 1
Bridget did not budge, and her face was without expression. She sat, quietly defeated like a chess player who lost a career match in less than four moves. Votes: 1
Emmie White
I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game. Votes: 1
Paolo Bacigalupi
The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'. Votes: 1
Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless. Votes: 1
There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely. That's what I don't like. Votes: 1
What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded. Votes: 1
Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment. Votes: 1
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome. Votes: 1
Everyone wants to be wanted and if all people wait for someone else to invest in them, the world will be stuck in an eternal stalemate: nobody moves and nobody wins. Votes: 1
Laura L.
Now mayhap you quit givin Terrible the fuckin slurpy-eyes an give Bump the listening, yay? Thinkin you can? Gots some fuckin chattering wants doin, needs you fuckin head on straight up. Votes: 1
In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ...It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow. Votes: 1
I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded. Votes: 1
Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen. Votes: 1
The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game. Votes: 1
Kelly Corrigan
I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak. Votes: 1
The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it. Votes: 1
I have just spent the better part of a week sorting out the miasma of lunatic alibis known as your correspondence in an effort to adjust matters, that our game may be finished simply once and for all. Votes: 1
Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war. Votes: 1
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Like most conversations and most chess games, we all start off the same and we all end the same, with a brief moment of difference in between. Fertilization to fertilizer. Ashes to ashes. And we spark across the gap. Votes: 1
Brian Christian
She has gathered that the man in the grey suit whom her father called Alexander also has a student, and there will be some sort of game. "Like chess?" she asks once. "No," her father says. "Not like chess. Votes: 1
Erin Morgenstern
Only Uncle Pascha ignored her. He was contemplating his chessboard. She doubted that he'd move his piece today. It had been his turn for only six months. Once, he had gone three years between moves. He preferred a leisurely game. Votes: 1
Sarah Beth Durst
His hands on the sides of her face, on her neck, holding her there. "Chessie...shit, Chessie, I love you so bad." His teeth on her throat, biting hard, his lips soothing the spot. "So fucking much, so...so bad. Votes: 1
No matter what the industry you choose to ultimately invest all your time and energy in, be sure you're the owner, founder, and CEO. Remember, if you don't own it, you can't control it nor can you depend on it. Votes: 1
Brandi L. Bates
IF her life had taught her anything, it was that you never really knew what people had going on beneath the surface. People were shit. The only difference between them and animals was people felt the need to hide it. Votes: 1
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess. Votes: 1
How the hell did people do this, this emotion-and-forgiveness thing? How did they stand these feelings? She could barely handle it and she had lovely, necessary, reason-for-living drugs to smooth over the rough spots. How did people do this shit sober? Votes: 1
I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards. Votes: 1
Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it. Votes: 1
If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being shoved at some rook. I'll play my part, damn it, but I want the courtesy of being asked for my consent! Votes: 1
Thomm Quackenbush
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to. Votes: 1
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion Votes: 1
Anatol Rapoport
How gorgeous this chess set is.' Each piece was a delicate marble fantasy of medieval warfare. The paint had long ago worn off, except for faint touches of red, in the fury of the king's eyes, on the queen's lower lip, in the bishop's robe. Votes: 1
Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess. Votes: 1
I ain't...Don't know how to say it up right. Never--Fuck, Chess. Thought you was dead once before, you recall? Never felt so bad in my life, not ever. Then on the other day, thought you was gone and just....I can't do it, bein without you. Votes: 1
A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together. Votes: 1
Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have a unique ability of taking in a lot of information and remembering relevant bits. So, memory and mental stamina are the key attributes. Votes: 1
Viswanathan Anand
For 'Inhuman,' it's a 'chess game' series. You have a lot of pieces moving different ways at once, and it's about what they do on their own and what happens when they collide into one another. It's about long-range planning, new character creation, and trying to really build things. Votes: 1
Charles Soule
I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days. Votes: 1
The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in charge of them. And it's your ability to see into the future and the effects of the decisions you've made that males you either a good or not a good chess player. It's not luck. Votes: 1
But I find something compelling in the game's choreography, the way one move implies the next. The kings are an apt metaphor for human beings: utterly constrained by the rules of the game, defenseless against bombardment from all sides, able only to temporarily dodge disaster by moving one step in any direction. Votes: 1
Jennifer duBois
Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage. Votes: 1
Steve Sabol
It's important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally think too many coaching and training classes may take away a child's interest in the game itself. The essential thing to do is practise often and, in case of a doubt, to consult a trainer. Votes: 1
I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games. Votes: 1
There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth. Votes: 1
Tennis is physical chess. Votes: 0
Rita Mae Brown
Blitz chess kills your ideas. Votes: 0
Life's to short for chess. Votes: 0
Henry James Byron
Life's too short for chess. Votes: 0
Combination is a soul of chess. Votes: 0
The Russians have fixed world chess. Votes: 0
Snooker is just chess with balls. Votes: 0
Botvinnik was a killer in chess. Votes: 0
Yuri Averbakh
tennis is a 100-mph chess match. Votes: 0
Why are most chess masters under 30? Votes: 0
I'm a pretty good chess player. Votes: 0
There are no heroes in chess. Votes: 0
Life is too short for chess. Votes: 0
Life is a kind of chess. Votes: 0
A chess tournament disguised as a circus. Votes: 0
John Connally
Perfectly correct chess exists only in theory. Votes: 0
In life, as in chess, forethought wins. Votes: 0
Charles Buxton
The pawn is the soul of chess. Votes: 0
Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
In Kansas I have a chess school Votes: 0
You are never too old to play chess! Votes: 0
Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess. Votes: 0
Psychology is the most important factor in chess. Votes: 0
All chess masters can play one game blindfolded. Votes: 0
George Koltanowski
Football is like chess, only without the dice. Votes: 0
I play my enemies like a game of chess Votes: 0
A chess problem is an exercise in pure mathematics. Votes: 0
In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once. Votes: 0
The strategist is a chess player thrown into life. Votes: 0
VIRGIL PROFEANU
In chess there is a world of intellectual values, Votes: 0
You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills. Votes: 0
When you play chess alone it's always your move. Votes: 0
Charles Simic
I love chess, but it's the height of decadence. Votes: 0
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. Votes: 0
I study chess eight hours a day, on principle. Votes: 0
Hold'em is to stud what chess is to checkers. Votes: 0
Johnny Moss
Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess. Votes: 0
Eric Bogosian
I don't play chess with my life, ya' know. Votes: 0
No fool can play chess, and only fools do. Votes: 0
Marc Lowrance
Poets do not go mad, but chess players do. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. Chesterton
In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute. Votes: 0
That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices! Votes: 0
A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess. Votes: 0
Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right." Votes: 0
Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right. Votes: 0
Golf is the loneliest of games, not excluding postal chess. Votes: 0
Peter Dobereiner
Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess. Votes: 0
A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess. Votes: 0
All I ever want to do is just play chess. Votes: 0
Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam. Votes: 0
In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber. Votes: 0
Yuliya Snigir
A great chess player always has a very good memory. Votes: 0
Leonid Shamkovich
I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school. Votes: 0
If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess. Votes: 0
Believe firmly that in chess there are no rules without exceptions. Votes: 0
The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed. Votes: 0
Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens. Votes: 0
For us chess players the language of artist is something natural. Votes: 0
Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop? Votes: 0
Watching the season for me is about watching the chess matches. Votes: 0
Ray Lewis
The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers. Votes: 0
All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis. Votes: 0
Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess. Votes: 0
We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!... Votes: 0
It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess. Votes: 0
Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess. Votes: 0
I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess. Votes: 0
Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician. Votes: 0
Raymond Keene
A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position. Votes: 0
The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years. Votes: 0
The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece. Votes: 0
It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter. Votes: 0
I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess. Votes: 0
I think with chess as with everything, marketing is the main issue. Votes: 0
Which do I prefer? Sex or chess? It depends on the position. Votes: 0
Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated. Votes: 0
Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess. Votes: 0
Felix Frankfurter
I think a player constantly improves his understanding of chess with experience. Votes: 0
Yasser Seirawan
Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind. Votes: 0
Death stoops over me.I'm a problem in chess. Hehas the solution. Votes: 0
Tomas Transtromer
Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa. Votes: 0
Henri Poincare
I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son Votes: 0
For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey. Votes: 0
I don't like politics especially in chess. All I want is promote chess 24/7. Votes: 0
There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it. Votes: 0
I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting. Votes: 0
Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals. Votes: 0
Perry DeAngelis
Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too. Votes: 0
Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games. Votes: 0
My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs. Votes: 0
Eric Allin Cornell
To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame. Votes: 0
Never play for the win, never play for the draw, just play chess! Votes: 0
Alexander Khalifman
The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it. Votes: 0
Al Leiter
The placing of the center pawns determines the 'topography' of a game of chess. Votes: 0
Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear. Votes: 0
Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds Votes: 0
Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters. Votes: 0
It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine. Votes: 0
Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory. Votes: 0
If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also. Votes: 0
A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover. Votes: 0
Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess. Votes: 0
Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess. Votes: 0
It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly. Votes: 0
An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess. Votes: 0
It is impossible to ignore a highly important factor of the chess struggle - psychology. Votes: 0
My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life. Votes: 0
Training in analysis (like any other form of chess training) should be treated very seriously. Votes: 0
Mark Dvoretsky
I'd like to always be romantic in chess. Sadly, this doesn't always work like that. Votes: 0
I stopped taking notes on my Palm Pilot and started playing the little chess game. Votes: 0
I feel that my chess strengths are still here, .. I believe I can still improve. Votes: 0
It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers. Votes: 0
People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess. Votes: 0
Coaching secrets? I don't think I got any. The main "secret" - love for chess. Votes: 0
Ashot Nadanian
In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess. Votes: 0
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman. Votes: 0
There is nothing like chess to keep the brain smart, and give it a workout. Votes: 0
Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess. Votes: 0
There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end. Votes: 0
Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess. Votes: 0
No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game. Votes: 0
Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...) Votes: 0
Martin Amis
If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers. Votes: 0
It is a well known fact that almost all the outstanding chess-players have been first-class analysts. Votes: 0
No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics. Votes: 0
If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all. Votes: 0
Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival. Votes: 0
Wilhelm Steinitz was the first man to appreciate the inherent logic behind the game of chess. Votes: 0
I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol. Votes: 0
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. Votes: 0
Ralph Charell
If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around. Votes: 0
William McDonough
Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess. Votes: 0
Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature. Votes: 0
Remy you're my king." I hug him hard. "There's no chess game for me without you. Votes: 0
Katy Evans
I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees. Votes: 0
The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches. Votes: 0
The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed according to the sacrifices it contains. Votes: 0
Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight. Votes: 0
Jacques Barzun
I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball. Votes: 0
Like us as Black", beg the chess pieces," and you will anyway like us as White Votes: 0
Isaac Boleslavsky
To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player. Votes: 0
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands. Votes: 0
There is luck in chess. My opponent was lucky that he was playing against an idiot. Votes: 0
James M. Loy
The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly. Votes: 0
Katherine Neville
It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position Votes: 0
A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves. Votes: 0
I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw ... Votes: 0
I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.' Votes: 0
Ricky Schroder
I have always had a slight feeling of pity for man who has no knowledge of chess. Votes: 0
My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type. Votes: 0
I play chess, but my past is checkered, The mic and I are like staff and shepherd. Votes: 0
... My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory ... Votes: 0
He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker. Votes: 0
Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +- Votes: 0
The battle for the ultimate truth will never be won. And that's why chess is so fascinating. Votes: 0
Hans Kmoch
I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else. Votes: 0
Many men, many styles; what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win. Votes: 0
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! Votes: 0
Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions. Votes: 0
If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company. Votes: 0
I got arrested for playing chess in the street. I said, it's because I'm black, isn't it. Votes: 0
Milton Jones
Throughout my chess career I sought out new challenges, looking for things no one had done before. Votes: 0
In chess it is more important to frustrate your opponent's strategy than to be obsessed with your own. Votes: 0
Larry Evans
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that. Votes: 0
In their figurative game of chess, Anthony Rawlings had Claire in check. Every move she made, he countered. Votes: 0
Aleatha Romig
I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened. Votes: 0
In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time. Votes: 0
I have frequently stated that I regard chess as an art form, where creativity prevails over other factors. Votes: 0
My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible. Votes: 0
Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess. Votes: 0
When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee. Votes: 0
Israel Albert Horowitz
To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess. Votes: 0
I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them. Votes: 0
It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists. Votes: 0
In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other. Votes: 0
I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event Votes: 0
With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art. Votes: 0
I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event. Votes: 0
The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules. Votes: 0
For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression. Votes: 0
I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune. Votes: 0
No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess. Votes: 0
The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game. Votes: 0
In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness. Votes: 0
Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position. Votes: 0
It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old. Votes: 0
Alison Gopnik
Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening. Votes: 0
Henry A. Kissinger
I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country. Votes: 0
Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess. Votes: 0
Louis Dudek
I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly. Votes: 0
Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Votes: 0
Zicheng Hong
I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person. Votes: 0
The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not. Votes: 0
I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back. Votes: 0
There was a time in my life when I almost thought I could never lose a single duel of chess. Votes: 0
Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago Votes: 0
You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know. Votes: 0
I was still too weak to understand his chess ideas at that time but I remember being covered in smoke. Votes: 0
Alexei Shirov
Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now Votes: 0
I think I can safely conclude that there is not a lot to be said for playing chess while on Valium. Votes: 0
During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey. Votes: 0
We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board. Votes: 0
Arnon Goldfinger
There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess. Votes: 0
The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic. Votes: 0
Boris Gelfand
Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win. Votes: 0
Marriage is like a chess match is initiated and the board expands over time until it takes up all of a life. Votes: 0
Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you're sharp, you can do it for as long as you want. Votes: 0
As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine. Votes: 0
I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that. Votes: 0
Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way. Votes: 0
Joshua Waitzkin
My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again. Votes: 0
I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up. Votes: 0
I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game. Votes: 0
Jenny Frost
How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge. Votes: 0
No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
Amar Bose
Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5
I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.
The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.
Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.
The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc.
At lunchtime the place is jumping, while at night the dining rooms could have been rented out for chess tournaments.
Bryan Q. Miller
The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and pipe.
Hojo Soun
Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.
The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.
Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.
To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.
Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess
When I was in grade school I was into chess club, Latin club, D&D, computer camp - everything that made vaginas go away.
You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.
To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.
For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.
Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.
I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.
You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.
I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.
Lou Gerstner
[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.
Carol Mann
A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.
Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.
Yuri Razuvaev
I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.
The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.
Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.
Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.
H. Russell Wakefield
One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.
The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.
In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.
Pal Benko
Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together.
Pat Ament
I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.
Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)
I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of some sort.
I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow.
I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.
Paul Banks
One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one could live in it.
Tobias Wolff
A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.
Arthur Dean
No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.
Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.
Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't really understand them.
Michael Stean
I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss.
We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame.
Lubomir Kavalek
Ultimately chess is just chess - not the best thing in the world and not the worst thing in the world, but there is nothing quite like it.
Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.
There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.
Maurice Ashley
When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.
Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess
Frank Brady
Chess is a great game. No matter how good one is, there is always somebody better. No matter how bad one is, there is always somebody worse.
You always have to be keeping track, especially in this scenario [ The Hateful Eight], of where everybody is. They're pieces on a chess board.
Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.
Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.
I have visited Tromsø and can personally say Tromsø is a beautiful city, well equipped to be an excellent choice for the Chess Olympiad 2014.
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live with - and it lasts a lifetime.
Simen Agdestein
Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight
Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.
Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.
The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation.
As a kid, chess was the first thing I studied in a structured way that helped me gain the discipline to study medicine and become successful doctor.
The world championship is a disputed title. You've got a situation like boxing. Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified.
The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game
Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.
The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess "" and in business and in life in general "" is not trusting their instincts enough.
My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play.
Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.
Christopher Bollen
The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several moves ahead to set up your opponent.
Brad Lidge
Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.
It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.
Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess is supposed to be
But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the most marvellous wonders of our 20th century!
Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.
The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand Master chess player. Once you get one, then I'll buy some of the feminism...
Place the contents of the Chess box in a hat, shake them up vigorously, pour them on the board from a height of two feet, and you get the style of Steinitz
Henry Bird
Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.
Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
Realize that the social media success equation isn't big moves on the chess board, it's little moves made every day that eventually add up to a major shift.
Jay Baer
There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess
Mortimer Collins
Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!
Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly.
Chess960 is healthy and good for your chess. If you get into it and not just move the pieces to achieve known positions it really improves your chess vision.
My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to work independently.
I would never suggest to anyone that they drop school for chess. First of all even if you can make it in chess, your social skills need to be developed there.
Much time and money has gone into computer chess programs, and so far, no one's figured out how to crack the game, which I think speaks to chess's complexity.
Wells Tower
Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher.
But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.
Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.
Gabe Polsky
For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.
We are a thick skinned people with emtpy souls. We spend our days playing dice, chess, or sleeping - and we say we are the best people that ever came to mankind?
Nizar Qabbani
Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, "Here! Have them all!
Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble
Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well."
There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'.
Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.
You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess, of chess culture.
Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst.
I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write...
Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.
Bobby Fischer was hugely important for the American chess community because it put chess on the map - he made it possible for other chess players to make a living.
Liz Garbus
It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King's Gambit against a representative of the old chess guard.
Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.
The correct way to play chess is to develop each and every piece (chess is a team game!), get your King safely castled, and only then begin more aggressive maneuvers.
Jeremy Silman
I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.
Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.
A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.
Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.
Budd Schulberg
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.
It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething with a kaleidoscope of emotions.
Shankarananda
In high school, my sister went out with the captain of the chess team. My parents loved him... They figured that any guy that took hours to make a move was okay with them.
Brian Kiley
I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered.
Robert Benchley
Chess hasn't really influenced my literature. It's true, there's a character in Pigeon Post, an old chess player; but it's more of a wink, a self-portrait and not much more.
Dumitru Tepeneag
Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.
The true sweetness of chess, if it can ever be called sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadows of apparently irrevocable disaster.
Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.
While it is a cause for regret that Fischer did not continue to produce scintillating games, he perhaps had a greater impact on chess than any other twentieth century player
John Nunn
Playing chess has many aspects that can be useful in everyday situations like planning, concentration and combinations. You learn to win but also to lose and to be creative.
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.
Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result...Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.
What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog what's dead already, and don't love a lady unless she loves you first.
I remember mentioning to friends back in 1938 that the world chess champion would be beaten by a computer in 50 years time. Today we know computers are not far from this goal.
Konrad Zuse
I have always felt that Judit was a relatively slow starter, though she is extremely motivated, diligent, hard-working, and disciplined towards her goals in chess and in life.
Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work
The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.
Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players have castled on opposite sides.
In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound
All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out from the rest of the game and stirs one's admiration.
When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side
Politicians should be dedicated to the welfare of the people, but sometimes politics becomes like a game of chess, in which the sole aim is to stay on board as long as possible.
Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity
A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.
Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth.
You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.
The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.
The Olympic Charter says winter sports must be played on snow or ice, so the Chess Federation says they'll play with ice pieces. The Olympic charter also says sports must be sports.
Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play one and the same opening system, even though it be rich in variations and nuances.
Efim Geller
A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.
In the Soviet Union, for instance, the pressure on the chess stars was immense. When Boris Spassky came home after losing that match, he found he no longer had an apartment in Moscow.
One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.
Scarlett Thomas
If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist or a musician of some sort you know if you give a jazz musician...
Sheena Iyengar
Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the ties which link Chess with the human soul
Al-Masudi
Earlier in my career, I never thought of boxing as a chess game, but I confirm that they are, in fact, very similar. You can plan your fights and strategy just like you would in chess.
Wladimir Klitschko
By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.
Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when I reply, quite truthfully, 'as a rule not a single one'
But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is like reaching for a salary check in its demand on the contemplative faculties.
What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?
Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
Seneca the Younger
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.
Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.
Jerome K. Jerome
Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and God endows it with its blessed power of making people happy.
Peter Weiss
By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.
In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.
There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might have relegated him to a minor career.
A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess is art" is already inappropriate. The purpose of modern chess is to reach a result.
Alexander Morozevich
After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired
Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and with the help of our imagination turn the struggle of technique into a battle of ideas.
The process of making pieces in Chess do something useful (whatever it may be) has received a special name: it is called the attack. The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.
There's never before been a Chess player with such a thorough knowledge of the intricacies of the game and such an absolutely indomitable will to win. I think Bobby is the greatest player that ever lived
Lisa Lane
Being in the military just lets you know how helpless you are. You could train forever but you're still at the mercy of someone in the Pentagon, or somebody in the rear moving you around like a chess piece.
I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make man happy.
It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?
Life is like a game of chess...there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move...where you wind up is the sum total of all your past moves...but first you have to make some kind of move.
Mort Walker
... Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can begin to grasp the secrets of chess ...
For me right now I think being the world number one is a bigger deal than being the world champion because I think it shows better who plays the best chess. That sounds self-serving but I think it's also right.
Remorse has no place in a warrior's mind... A war is like a game of chess, Nicholaa. Every battle is like a well-thought-out move on the board. Once it begins, there shouldn't be any emotion involved whatsoever.
I don't know whether computers are improving the style of play, I know they are changing it. Chess has become a different game, one could say that computers have changed the world of chess. That is pretty clear.
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.
Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.
The game of chess. Supposedly men made it up, and it's about war and men and the ravages and the bravery and the genius of commanding and moving pieces and ... No. It's marriage. The Queen moves anywhere she wants.
If you're playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I got really good at blitz, one-minute chess games. But that's kind of like the cheap chess version.
I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha's mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move.
Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or than bishop and knight, though very few know the reason for this advantage and how to turn it to account.
On the whole, the life of a chess professional is not as easy as it appears at first sight. One needs to devote some ten hours a day to chess and to everything connected with it - physical and psycholgical preparation.
My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, for all the science and sport involved in it.
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.
Think of golf as chess. You have to think two or three moves ahead every time you hit the ball. Over every shot, you should be thinking, 'Where do I need to put this ball in order to make my next shot as easy as possible.
Gary McCord
Chess programs don't play chess the way humans play chess. We don't really know how humans play chess, but one of the things we do is spot some opportunity on the chess board toward a move to capture the opponent's queen.
Stuart J. Russell
Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.
It was Steinitz who was the first to establish the basic principles of general chess strategy. He was a pioneer and one of the most profound researchers into the thruth of the game, which was hidden from his contemporaries.
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.
He was the captain of the chess club and an A-plus student." "" Nick "Why would anyone think he's a demon?" "" Tate "The world is insane, and you're asking me for the reasoning of a psycho? I'm not a profiler." "" Acheron
I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of chess and other events can seem quite unimportant in comparison with a catastrophe on the chessboard.
Vlastimil Hort
If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.
In so-called communist Romania, chess was held in high esteem, even if our champions were weaker than the Soviets. This game, this "sport of the mind," was at the time a better way to establish your reputation than literature.
Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study (the Bible) an hour. You know, I was half out of my head-stoned almost.
As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king's bishop. In its absense the game to me is lifeless and void. The vitalizing factor is missing, and I can devise no plan of attack.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the people who really enjoy chess are the dubs and the duffers, experts who have resigned their ambitions, those who play only for pastime, and, of course, the great fraternity of the kibbitzers.
Alfred Kreymborg
You can't overestimate the importance of psychology in chess, and as much as some players try to downplay it, I believe that winning requires a constant and strong psychology not just at the board but in every aspect of your life.
Since your mental state can have such dramatic effects on your body, obviously your physical condition can affect your mental well-being. It follows that regular physical conditioning should be part of your overall chess training.
Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative in maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels gratified, because it shows that the resources of the game are far from being exhausted.
For me, chess is not a profession, it is a way of life, a passion. People may feel that I have conquered the peak and will not have to struggle. Financially, perhaps that is true; but as far as chess goes, I'm still learning a lot!
... in itself the title of world champion does not give any significicant advantages, if it is not acknowledged by the entire chess world, and a champion who does not have the chess world behind him is, in my view, a laughing-stock.
Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand proved that even this obscure line is something he has studied before, and it was Carlsen that was set back.
Alejandro Ramirez
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
Results show that just one year of chess tuition will improve a student's learning abilities, concentration, application, sense of logic, self-discipline, respect, behavior and the ability to take responsibility for his/her own actions.
I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combinative with the positional, and I aim to respond to the demands of each given position.
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.
The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished forever. Chess knowledge has become dominant, bypassing all the other factors that contribute to success.
Martial sex is kinda like ordering a Civil War chess set through the mail. You get one piece every four to six weeks, you don't know what kind of shape that piece is gonna be in when you get it, but you still gotta pay the handling charges.
Because I have a passion for the play. My father was a chess teacher, and I learned the play of him as a small child. Occasionally I made another career; but now I have again the possibility of maintaining the passion of my early youth days.
Carmen Kass
We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in a way quite similar to that in which it goes on with the individual chess player, only with the latter more rapidly.
Chess strategy as such today is still in its diapers, despite Tarrasch's statement 'We live today in a beautiful time of progress in all fields'. Not even the slightest attempt has been made to explore and formulate the laws of chess strategy.
The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it
The gigantic challenge is the magnitude of the individual differences in the optimal set point for "good stress." For one person, it's doing something risky with your bishop in a chess game; for someone else, it's becoming a mercenary in Yemen.
Robert M. Sapolsky
Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are acculated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life!
Alan Rufus
Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary.
... far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and online matches, there has been a mini-boom in chess interest among young people in many countries.
In my experience, when I went to school, and especially in after-school, and during breaks, a lot of people wanted to sit down and play chess up till a certain age when it was not supposed to be cool anymore and people wanted to do other things.
All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.
I remember being with a girlfriend who asked me to look over some chess openings with her. I instantly fell asleep. I found that I could always take a nap in any situation by just looking at some opening variation - my eyes would shut right away.
Truth derives its strength not so much from itself as from the brilliant contrast it makes with what is only apparently true. This applies especially to Chess, where it is often found that the profoundest moves do not much startle the imagination.
That which Steinitz gave to the theoretical aspect of the game when he was at his best is very remote to all out home-bred chess philosophers, but with his views on Morphy, whom he tries to discredit completely, it is of course impossible to agree.
They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.
The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All the changes of a cultural, political, and psychological background are reflected in the style and ideas of their play.
The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the Pawn structure
I was very competitive growing up. I can't even play chess anymore because I used to play tournament chess in school. There's too much sense memory of sitting in front of a chess board and getting super intense about it. It's ruined the game for me.
Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.
The Indians and Chinese have become brilliant chess professionals. They get on a plane and play all over the world. This has led to dramatic pressure on incomes. Nowadays, the best chess player in Argentina can no longer make a living playing chess.
For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man.
Craig Claiborne
In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn't do well. They'd get bad openings.
I really enjoy playing with someone else and whether it's chess or tennis or games, I love card games. I love that, but I think there's something so important to gain from winning and losing and learning how to lose and how you can be better from that.
At one point I had a very complicated plan to use the game of chess as a generating structure for writing. I prepared for a long time. I finally wrote two chapters and stopped. It was too complicated and too difficult to write. And who would've read it?
During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a chess club during the late afternoon or evening to relax and find relief from the preoccupations of their work.
It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual carping care is foreign. Therefore he loves the attack and the bold sacrifice; for theirin lies the shortest way to his ultimate objective.
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.
I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I was 16 years old. In other sports, if you have been playing for seven years, you are not a young prodigy any more. You're one of the pros.
There is no physical punishment in chess; suffering goes on inside the mind. You defend a bad position for hours, you suffer. You lose, you suffer like in any other sport. Suffering euphoria comes when the opponent blunders in a winning position, but it is undeserved.
Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time.
I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.
I'm not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while, you can almost see lines of force between the pieces. Areas of danger where it is physically impossible to move pieces into. Clouds of possibility, forbidden zones.
Hannu Rajaniemi
Not infrequently ... the theoretical is a synonym of the stereotyped. For the 'theoretical' in chess is nothing more than that which can be found in the textbooks and to which players try to conform because they cannot think up anything better or equal, anything original.
Mikhail Chigorin
Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.
Here is a definition which correctly reflects the course of thought and action of a grandmaster: - The plan in a game of chess is the sum total of successive strategical operations which are each carried out according to separate ideas arising from the demands of the position.
In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop within yourself a large number of qualities, the qualities of an artistic creator, a calculating practitioner, a cold calm competitor.
The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that I don't understand chess as a whole. But then again no one understands chess in its entirety. Perhaps talent is something else, in chess it is conditionality.
Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence of surging emotions (and not necessarily negative ones) we sometimes lose concentration and stop objectively evaluating the events that are taking place on the board.
As with Steinitz, Fischer's genius has often been concealed by controversies away from the board. Like Lasker, Fischer has raised chess to new financial heights despite frequent retreats from serious play. And, like Capablanca, Fischer is recognized by millions of non-players and has won the game many new enthusiasts.
Chess and strategy (30 quotes)
Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage. Votes: 1 Steve Sabol
Chess game (156 quotes)
When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game. Votes: 4 Michael Birch
Chess match (32 quotes)
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost. Votes: 3 Viktor Korchnoi
Chess player (92 quotes)
Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head. Votes: 5 Magnus Carlsen
Game of chess (166 quotes)
Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory. Votes: 7 Max Euwe
Life like chess (18 quotes)
I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game. Votes: 1 Jenny Frost