Chess Quotes
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Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition. Mostly, I'm interested in doing real sports.
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Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences.
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I was lucky enough to attend schools where they were understanding about when I needed to go abroad to play chess. Of course, socially it is important to go to school and interact with people your own age.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
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There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.
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I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.
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'Tax Law is like the world's biggest chess game with all sorts of weird conundrums about ethics and civics and consent of the governed built in. For me, it's a bit like math. I have no talent for it but find it still erotically interesting.'
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It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
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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.
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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.
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I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
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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.
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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.
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I was a coin collector.I didn't know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was in uncirculated condition might be a panty dropper, and it turned out not to be. Then I stumbled into skateboarding, which kind of was cooler. But I wasn't aware of what was cool. My dad wasn't around so he couldn't shake me and say, 'Drop the coin collecting bit. It's not where you want to go.' So, that and the spelling bee and the chess, I think I had it figured out for myself.
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I've never been one of those actors who plays chess with his career and goes, 'I'm going to wait now and see what project comes up that can move me to this or that level.' I take stuff as it comes, and it just so happens that it hasn't dried up yet, touch wood.
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You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
Garry Kasparov -
If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.
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I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.
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Sheriff Bart: Since I am your host and you are my guest what are your hobbies? What do you like to do in your free time?Jim 'The Waco Kid': Oh you know, play chess...screw.Sheriff Bart: Well let's play chess!
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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.
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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.
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In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
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It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
Garry Kasparov
