Quotes on Chess

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.

Author: Maurice Ashley

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

Author: Dave Barry

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

Author: Eric Bogosian

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

Author: Kobe Bryant

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

Author: Eric Cornell

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.

Author: Eric Cornell

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

Author: Marcel Duchamp

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

Author: Max Euwe

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

Author: Felix Frankfurter

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this.

Author: John Harsanyi

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

Author: Anatoly Karpov

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.

Author: Anatoly Karpov

In Kansas I have a chess school.

Author: Anatoly Karpov

Chess is mental torture.

Author: Garry Kasparov

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

Author: Garry Kasparov

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Author: Soren Kierkegaard

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

Author: Viktor Korchnoi

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

Author: Vladimir Kramnik

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.

Author: Peter Mayhew

I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.

Author: Dennis Miller

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.

Author: Douglass North

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

Author: Boris Spassky

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

Author: Boris Spassky

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

Author: Boris Spassky

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

Author: Boris Spassky

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.

Author: Howard Staunton

Chess is not for timid souls.

Author: Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

Author: Wilhelm Steinitz

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.

Author: Ryan Stiles

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.

Author: Lars Trier

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

Author: Charles Warner

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.

Author: Donald Westlake

Quotes on Chess

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this.

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

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.

In Kansas I have a chess school.

Chess is mental torture.

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

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

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

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

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.

I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.

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.

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

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

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

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.

Chess is not for timid souls.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

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.

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.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

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.