Chess Quotes
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A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess is art" is already inappropriate. The purpose of modern chess is to reach a result.
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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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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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Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.
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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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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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Football is like chess, only without the dice.
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Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved.
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Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.
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Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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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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Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.
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Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.
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Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.
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'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.
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My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.
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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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I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.
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Let the perfectionist play postal.
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Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me.
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Since your mental state can have such dramatic effects on your body, obviously your physical condition can affect your mental well-being. It follows that regular physical conditioning should be part of your overall chess training.
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Chess is, above all, a fight.
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Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.
