Chess Quotes

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.

I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.

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

The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.

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.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets.

Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.

In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.

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.

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

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

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

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.

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

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.

Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

Chess is mental torture.

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

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.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

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.