Chess Quotes
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The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.
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Al Sharpton is not important. He's nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game.
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The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.
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Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.
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Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.
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I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.
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I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.
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Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.
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Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
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I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It's not like I'm trying to make the right chess move. It's more just that personal thing where you get connected to something for so long and then you want to do something that's in opposition to that.
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Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities are tragic, and in crime drama you rarely see the pain of bereavement or any consequences. It's reduced to a chess game.
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Let the perfectionist play postal.
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Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.
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I have to constantly work on my reflexes and hand-eye coordination. I do a lot of puzzles. I play chess.
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Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.
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I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.
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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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The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.. .I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
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The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.
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In chess or in football, the tactic that proves most effective is soon the one that people learn easily to block. Every innovation in attack is soon countered by another in defence.
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In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats on your wedding. You were a great player, now be ready to lose 50 points'.
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In chess, we say that the player with the initiative is obliged to attack, otherwise the initiative will be lost and the counterattack will likely be decisive.
Garry Kasparov -
Instead of critics reviewing my movies, now what they're really doing is trying to match wits with me. Every time they review my movies, it's like they want to play chess with the mastermind and show off every reference they can find, even when half of it is all of their own making.
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I play my enemies like a game of chess
