Chess Quotes
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I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Garry Kasparov -
I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.
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It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
Garry Kasparov -
Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.
Garry Kasparov -
If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.
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Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.
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My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
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My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
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Crossword puzzles, Sudoku... I'm good at all those things. It's not daily, but I'll do stuff on the airplane. I love playing chess. It's my favorite game.
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I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.
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I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.
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No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness
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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov -
Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.
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I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.
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Everything that Marvel does, it's a chess move. Nothing is by accident.
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Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
Garry Kasparov -
To obey a rule, to make a report, to give an order, to play a game of chess, are customs (uses, institutions)
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Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and then focus on the best choice of the remaining lot. That's the way expertise works in other fields, too: Wise practitioners recognize familiar patterns and put their creativity, improvisation, and skill toward the marginal cases.
