Chess Quotes

I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be in the one city where there was a sprouting chess team: Chennai.

Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.

Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

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.

When the end comes, I will meet it raging.

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.

Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.

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.

Marriage is like a chess match is initiated and the board expands over time until it takes up all of a life.

I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.

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.

Watching the season for me is about watching the chess matches.

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!

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.

It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.

My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.

Once we have chosen the right formation in the centre we have created opportunities for our pieces and laid the foundation of subsequent victory.

If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.

It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

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.

But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded by the tournament position!

Chess is 99 percent calculation.

Touch the pawns before your king with only infinite delicacy.

There is nothing like chess to keep the brain smart, and give it a workout.

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.

Coaching secrets? I don't think I got any. The main "secret" - love for chess.

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.

Life is a kind of chess.

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.

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.

It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.

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.

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.

At lunchtime the place is jumping, while at night the dining rooms could have been rented out for chess tournaments.

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.

With a name like that, he must be Catholic, right?

I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If we see one, we automatically look to see if it can be netted.

When you play chess alone it's always your move.

When I was in grade school I was into chess club, Latin club, D&D, computer camp - everything that made vaginas go away.

I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.

Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.

Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.

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.

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.