Chess Quotes

Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)

Play as often as you can.

Chess isn't a game of speed, it is a game of speech through actions

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.

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.

Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together.

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.

Chess is for everybody.

Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you're sharp, you can do it for as long as you want.

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.

Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals.

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.

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.

... I bid farewell to my readers in the hope that they have formed their own opinion as to the meaning of the word "combination".

(3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM...?' ... Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement by study of the original text.

Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician.

That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some.

The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.

Pawns are born free, yet they are everywhere in chains

I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'

Tennis is physical chess.

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.

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.

I stopped taking notes on my Palm Pilot and started playing the little chess game.

I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses

In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game

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.

I've always liked puzzles, since I was a kid. I like party games, silly games. I loved chess. I enjoy jigsaw puzzles, but I'm not particularly visual.

Chess is the only game greater than its players.

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.

Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.

Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity

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.

Chess is a sad waste of brains.

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?

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.

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."

Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.

Wilhelm Steinitz was the first man to appreciate the inherent logic behind the game of chess.

If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.

Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

Chess is not just a game. It is a way of life.

Wouldn’t you rather play chess, Ma’am?....It’s less destructive of clothes.

Our parting was like a stalemate….Neither of us won. Yet both of us lost.And worse still … that unshakable feeling that nothing was ever really finished.

Living together/ is one move closer/ to living apart

It was going to be our job to annoy someone?” “I know—it’s a dream come true!

After an hour the score was: Quancita—34 Radiz—51 Sally—froglegs Perla—9 a

Did Cap’n Vidious leave that? He is such a cuddlebunny.” “Yeah, ” I said, “that’s exactly how I’d describe him.

Did you just call me ‘sweetie’?” I asked. She shoved my shoulder. “No.