Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Chess is mental torture.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Chess
  • Torture
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• Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Same
  • Will
  • Intellect

• 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

• I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• 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

• One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Time
  • World

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

  Garry Kasparov
  • Time
  • 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

• 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

• Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

  

  Eric Allin Cornell
  • School
  • Chess

• 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.

  

  Alexandra Kosteniuk
  • Why
  • Chess

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

  

  Alexandra Kosteniuk
  • People
  • Chess

• The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians.

  

  Bobby Fischer
  • Country
  • American
  • Red

• Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Simple
  • Quality
  • Environment

• You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.

  

  Link Wray
  • Flying

• I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

  

  Josephine de La Baume
  • Thinking
  • Style
  • Sometimes

• Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Chess
  • Intellect
  • Touchstone