Chess Quotes

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.
Eric Bogosian

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.
Eric Allin Cornell

School, Year, High

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.
John Turturro

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.
Alexander Alekhine

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.
Alexander Alekhine

Objective, Teaches

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.
Alexander Alekhine

Knowledge, Logic

After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired.
Anatoly Karpov

Good, After, Whole

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.
Kate Chopin

Smile, Game, Eyes

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.
Jamie Murphy

Music, Child, Nursery

If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.
Alexandra Kosteniuk

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.
Alexandra Kosteniuk

Play, Face, Shame

Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.
Alexandra Kosteniuk

Hope, Getting, Popular

I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.
Magnus Carlsen

I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.
Magnus Carlsen

Computers, Important, Until

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.
Magnus Carlsen

Find, Else, Talent

I was lucky enough to attend schools where they were understanding about when I needed to go abroad to play chess. Of course, socially it is important to go to school and interact with people your own age.
Magnus Carlsen

Age, School, Important

One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.
Magnus Carlsen

Men, Champion, Coach

Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.
Donald E. Westlake

Writing, Learn, Seem

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.
Eric Allin Cornell

School, Enough, Between

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.
Peter Mayhew

Game, Before, Hair

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.
Douglass North

Job, Learned, Young

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.
Rex Stout

Home, Story, Books

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.
Lars von Trier

Yourself, Opinion, Far

Chess is not for timid souls.
Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
Wilhelm Steinitz

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.
Al Leiter

Play, Pitcher, Batter

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.
Al Leiter

Important, Game, Book

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.
Alexandra Kosteniuk

Life, Dad, Career

The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling.
Amber Benson

Life, Freedom, Game

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
Charles Buxton

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