Chess Quotes

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.

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.

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

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

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.

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.

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 is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

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.

I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.

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

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.

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.

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

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

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.