Chess Quotes

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

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.

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

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

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.

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

Chess is mental torture.

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.

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

Chess is life.

What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

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.

Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

Life's to short for chess.

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

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

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