Chess Quotes
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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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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
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The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel, we with maturing experience leave off gambit playing and become interested in the less vivacious but withal more forceful manoeuvres of the position player.
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I believe that, not only in chess, but in life in general, people place too much stock in ratings – they pay attention to which TV shows have the highest ratings, how many friends they have on Facebook, and it’s funny. The best shows often have low ratings and it is impossible to have thousands of real friends.
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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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I'm a pretty good chess player.
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In this respect, I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry [Kasparov]. With his very emotive body language at the [chess]board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.
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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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Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.
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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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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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The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.
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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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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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If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.
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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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He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leas to standstill or to anarchy.
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Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.
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For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.
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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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You know, even more than playing chess, I dislike dealing with self-righteous chess players.
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I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.
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Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.
