Chess Quotes
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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study (the Bible) an hour. You know, I was half out of my head-stoned almost.
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In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as you're composing all of the ramifications of each move, of each choice you make.
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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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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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When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.
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Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly.
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I'm a pretty good chess player.
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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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Chess is a very positive way to exercise your mind. It makes you look at the whole picture...what are your options and what is the best thing to do? In football, you are mostly reacting from a defensive point of view...but you always want to be counterattacking...a similarity with chess strategy. Chess and offensive football are quite similar; you sacrifice something now to get something back later.
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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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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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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 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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The key to ultimate succcess is the determination to progress day by day.
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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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In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth
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For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.
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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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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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If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama any more. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?
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Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.
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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 is a beautiful mistress.
