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“The pitcher setting up the batter. It’s chess, and you play with it.”
“I don’t think the computer will win the Booker, but no-one ever expected a computer to beat a chess grandmaster.”
“Chess is not only knowledge and logic.”
“Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.”
“A woman can beat any man; it’s difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That’s why I like chess.”
“Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.”
“If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.”
“It’s a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.”
“Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.”
“I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.”
“I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.”
“In Kansas I have a chess school.”
“No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.”
“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.”
“If, in our first match for the world champion’s title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all.”
“We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.”
“I have to constantly work on my reflexes and hand-eye coordination. I do a lot of puzzles. I play chess.”
“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.”
“Chess and me, it’s hard to take them apart. It’s like my alter ego.”
“I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.”
“I felt that chess… is a science in the form of a game… I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.”
“Chess is life.”
“All I want to do, ever, is play chess.”
“Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess – players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.”
“Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.”
“We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema – some actors don’t like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.”
“I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov’s site is very interesting.”
“Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.”
“The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.”
“In life, as in chess, forethought wins.”
“There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.”
“Everything that Marvel does, it’s a chess move. Nothing is by accident.”
“I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.”
“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.”
“Whoever called snooker ‘chess with balls’ was rude, but right.”
“Chess is a great training ground for poker players because it’s a math-based game, much like backgammon is.”
“My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.”
“I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.”
“I’m like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.”
“Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.”
“It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.”
“Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have been around during the fervor of the match in Reykjavik and the rise of Bobby Fischer, so those two things conspired to pique my interest.”
“The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It’s the mental toughness.”
“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.”
“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”
“My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.”
“Ensemble is hard to do. It’s like 3-D chess.”
“Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.”
“Chess is mental torture.”
“Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.”
“In chess, we have styles – like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I’m trying to know my opponent as much as possible.”
“Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.”
“I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.”
“I may play some exhibition games so I don’t want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it’s a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.”
“I love the chess game that I do on ‘Suits.’ I just love every bit of it and that I get to do it.”
“Chess is a game of stimulation.”
“Like MCs, each chess player has his own style: how he likes to open, when he likes to attack. Just like we face off with each other lyrically, we challenge each other’s minds on the chessboard. Sharpen each other’s swords.”
“The most dangerous area is the centre, which has to be either attacked or defended in football, and it’s the same in chess.”
“Life’s to short for chess.”
“Life’s too short for chess.”
“In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there’s evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.”
“I keep track of my blog stats, Facebook subs, my Amazon rank, Twitter followers, Facebook likes per posts, my chess ranking. I get stressed when they all don’t go up.”
“For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.”
“My characters aren’t chess pieces. I don’t move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.”
“Jack White is an extraordinary person because he’s like a three-dimensional chess player. He thinks so far ahead.”
“I’m a pretty good chess player.”
“I play chess badly and I’ve been beaten by my 10-year old son.”
“These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.”
“The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.”
“If the media didn’t know I played chess, there’d be no angle on me at all.”
“I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.”
“I honestly don’t read that much. Obviously I read chess books – in terms of favorites, Kasparov’s ‘My Great Predecessors’ is pretty good.”
“It’s easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.”
“Right now I’m really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I’m not thinking of doing anything else.”
“Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.”
“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.”
“Football is a bit like chess: it’s not just the piece being moved that matters; it’s also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.”
“In chess, there are some extremely beautiful things in the domain of movement, but not in the visual domain. It’s the imagining of the movement or of the gesture that makes the beauty in this case.”
“I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.”
“I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art – and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.”
“Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.”
“The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.”
“I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn’t serve to bring me down any.”
“Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.”
“These guys are playing checkers. I’m out here playing chess. When they figure it out, it’s too late.”
“I’m used to litigating against incredibly competent, high-quality lawyers that are very good chess players.”
“Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they’ve beaten our top human chess champions.”
“People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.”
“Chess is ruthless: you’ve got to be prepared to kill people.”
“I was involved in a bunch of school activities – I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.”
“Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.”
“I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making ‘Andromeda.’”
“My younger brother ended up the British chess champion 10 times, a record.”
“I don’t play chess with my life, ya’ know.”
“What do I do when we’re not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.”
“I’ll always take Scrabble and chess if I’m going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.”
“Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.”
“I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.”
“Many leaders are tempted to lead like a chess master, striving to control every move, when they should be leading like gardeners, creating and maintaining a viable ecosystem in which the organization operates.”
“You can’t win the chess match if you don’t have enough pieces.”
“Football and chess can seem like sporting polar opposites, but there are so many similarities with the modern game.”
“The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility – those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.”
“In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue – 20,500 – and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.”
“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.”
“In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.”
“Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.”
“Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.”
“For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.”
“When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.”
“Chess is not for timid souls.”
“Chess is intellectual gymnastics.”
“I failed to make the chess team because of my height.”
“In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.”
