Chess Quotes
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If you're playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I got really good at blitz, one-minute chess games. But that's kind of like the cheap chess version.
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Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.
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Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.
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Each outing is its own game. You roll on your game plan. It is a different chess match each time you go out there. I just try to be prepared.
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When I saw 'Chess' in London, I thought it was horrible. It was so static. People were coming down front and just facing the audience, singing.
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Stereotyped as convention-going, pocket-protector-wearing, chess-playing, infrequently-showering types, nerds are one of our society's most ridiculed groups. And, for a university with an international reputation as a bastion of intellectualism, Harvard is startlingly devoid of them.
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But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the most marvellous wonders of our 20th century!
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Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.
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Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.
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Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.
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Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.
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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.
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A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.
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The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.
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Chess is a beautiful mistress.
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Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.
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These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.
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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.
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The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.
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I'm a pretty good chess player.
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Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play one and the same opening system, even though it be rich in variations and nuances.
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I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
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If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.
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Confidence is very important - even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the mistake.
