Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all. — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
... My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory ... — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
Did I ever tell you you play a very irritating game of chess, Mr. Spock? — James T Kirk Copy Share Image
Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess,… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
If one would cancel all traffic rules and switch off all traffic lights, watching city traffic on TV would be also awfully… — Oleg Romanishin Copy Share Image
It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
I do a mind game every day. I play chess, sudoku. I learn something different: a language, a few words of a… — John Layfield Copy Share Image
If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
I like the little chess match of how people move through space. I'm not comparing myself to Michelangelo with this analogy, but… — Timothy Miller Copy Share Image
“Intelligence involves a great deal more than the ability to follow rules ( which is what chess-playing program does). It is also… — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
One charming characteristic of many flank attacks I could mention is that they do not very often lead to simplification: if the… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
For me, chess is not a profession, it is a way of life, a passion. People may feel that I have conquered… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
“Over the years, they had destroyed all of him, removing hands, arms, and legs and leaving him with substitutes as delicate and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
By what right does White, in an absolutely even position, such as after move one, when both sides have advanced 1. e4,… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play. — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These guys are playing checkers. I'm out here playing chess. When they figure it out, it's too late. — Max Holloway Copy Share Image
It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
