Chess Quotes
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By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.
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Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.
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You always have to be keeping track, especially in this scenario [ The Hateful Eight], of where everybody is. They're pieces on a chess board.
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... in itself the title of world champion does not give any significicant advantages, if it is not acknowledged by the entire chess world, and a champion who does not have the chess world behind him is, in my view, a laughing-stock.
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I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.
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You know, even more than playing chess, I dislike dealing with self-righteous chess players.
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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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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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It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.
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The key to ultimate succcess is the determination to progress day by day.
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Christian ... he felt very much like an uninitiated chess-player who sees that the pieces are in a peculiar position on the board, and might open the way for him to give checkmate, if he only knew how.
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Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.
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You fight technology with technology, so you have to stay one step ahead of the criminal. It's very much a chess game - they make a move, you have to make a move.
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Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf
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You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its place as the par excellence of intellectual activity. Smart people in search of a challenging board game might try a game called Go.
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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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The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that I don't understand chess as a whole. But then again no one understands chess in its entirety. Perhaps talent is something else, in chess it is conditionality.
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But, I was as helpless as a chess piece when I was lifted up by someone's hand And delivered from the corner my enemies had got me in But in all of my salvation I still felt imprisoned inside that holding cell that is myself
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Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
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Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.
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What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog what's dead already, and don't love a lady unless she loves you first.
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Every month I look through some ten thousand games, so not as to miss any new ideas and trends.
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Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity
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Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate!
