Chess Quotes
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It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.
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Chess is a natural cerebral high.
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Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.
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In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth
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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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I'm a fat kid on the inside. I love food so much, and I fluctuate about 25 to 30 pounds between movies. I feel like I have to do a chess movie that requires very little movement at some point, just so I can eat pizza and play chess on the beach all day.
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For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.
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I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.
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Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.
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Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.
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We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.
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Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.
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Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.
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Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.
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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity, so to speak, and my logic. And the other was my religious life. I tried to apply what I learned in the church to my chess career too. But I still was studying chess. I wasn't just 'trusting in God' to give me the moves.
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It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.
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Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
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My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.
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For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.
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You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.
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Chess is the touchstone of intellect.
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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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On the whole, the life of a chess professional is not as easy as it appears at first sight. One needs to devote some ten hours a day to chess and to everything connected with it - physical and psycholgical preparation.
