Alfred Kreymborg Quotes

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

• Chess
• Ambitions
• Pastime

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• Chess is mental torture.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Chess
  • Torture
  • Mental

• Crossword puzzles, Sudoku... I'm good at all those things. It's not daily, but I'll do stuff on the airplane. I love playing chess. It's my favorite game.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Love
  • Game

• I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Style

• There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Know
  • Talent
  • Chess

• It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Chess

• Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Way
  • Opinion
  • Force

• 'I have no fear of war,' said Arthur Stuart. 'That’s when kings get to show their mettle.''You’re thinking of chess,' said Margaret. 'In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Fear

• The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Chess

• In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Time
  • Chess

• Chess was treated by the Soviet authorities as a very important and useful ideological tool to demonstrate the intellectual superiority of the Soviet communist regime over the decadent West.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Important
  • Chess

• I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

  

  Alexander Alekhine
  • Study
  • Chess

• Even a dickhead would do a better job than Ilyumzhinov. The chaos in the chess world is caused by 'leaders' who are unable to do their job properly.

  

  Anatoly Karpov
  • World
  • Job
  • Chaos

• 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.

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • Art
  • Chess

• 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.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Chess

• Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

  

  Max Euwe
  • Game
  • Victory
  • Achievement

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

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Chess

• Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.

  

  Eric Bogosian
  • Chess

• 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
  • Art
  • War
  • Science

• 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
  • Art
  • Guy
  • Style

• 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
  • Tennis
  • motivation
  • Chess

• 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
  • Chess
  • Ambitions
  • Pastime