Chess Quotes
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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 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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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they're going to know the truth when I do this book!
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Hard to say whether personal immortality would be a good thing or not. Not for the masses, surely! Too many of them as it was. But a select few, like Terangi Maclaren-or was it worth the trouble? Even given boats, chess, music, the No Drama, beautiful women and beautiful spectroscopes, life could get heavy.
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I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.
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The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.
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Chess was treated by the Soviet authorities as a very important and useful ideological tool to demonstrate the intellectual superiority of the Soviet communist regime over the decadent West.
Garry Kasparov -
All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.
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Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth
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In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.
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People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.
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Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.
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The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
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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Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.
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You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.
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No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness
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As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.
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My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.
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Everything that Marvel does, it's a chess move. Nothing is by accident.
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With his death, we have lost a very great chess genius whose like we'll never see again.
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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.
