Chess Quotes
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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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It would be three-dimensional chess with a million billion squares and a million pieces, and with the rules changing ever move.
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Chess is a natural cerebral high.
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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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Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.
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For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.
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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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In Chess, at least, the brave inherit the earth
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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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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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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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Chess is the touchstone of intellect.
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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 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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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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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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Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.
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Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those two or three thousand chessplayers who play on a par with a master. There are, however, a quarter of a million chessplayers who annually spend no fewer than 200 hours on chess without making any progress. Without going into any further calculations, I can assert with a high degree of certainty that nowadays we achieve only a fraction of what we are capable of achieving.
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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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The laws of chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not.
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For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.
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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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Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.
