Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these… — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
Chess computers do not sweat during time pressure and commit costly blunders. Furthermore, the strength of these programs (over and above their… — Ira Carmen Copy Share Image
You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
The Possibilities in racing tactics are almost unlimited, as in a game of chess, for every move there is a counter, for… — Franz Stampfl Copy Share Image
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
There is no one 'best set-up', there are many - you can get to mate in endless ways. And - don't forget!… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Once upon a time supporters of the Steinitz-Tarrasch school had a very high opinion of a queen-side pawn majority. Modern strategy on… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Because I have a passion for the play. My father was a chess teacher, and I learned the play of him as… — Carmen Kass Copy Share Image
[Some of the people I'd met] were wonderful people as human beings, and some people were more difficult. I could not see… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you.… — Junior Seau Copy Share Image
If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Had I not played the Sicilian with Black I could have saved myself the trouble of studying for more than 20 years… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
Being a professional chess player is not very family-friendly and I am away quite often playing tournaments, sometimes for 12 days at… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
Since your mental state can have such dramatic effects on your body, obviously your physical condition can affect your mental well-being. It… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Greg Kaidanov tried to get me to view his behavior as part of what makes him great - if he wouldn't get… — Irina Krush Copy Share Image
Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and… — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple,… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as… — Willard Fiske Copy Share Image
I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
“Love was full of secrets. Love masked so many evils. Love controlled people, it lied to them, it made them believe things… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of… — Jonny Lee Miller Copy Share Image
It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh,… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“No, no, I just…you seem to be really good at this, is all.” “Do I?” She finished the marking and started sorting… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes… — Howard Staunton Copy Share Image
The queen was my favorite chess piece. Unlike the women I knew in real life, she was powerful. Her job was to… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure;… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go… — Debby Ryan Copy Share Image
The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
Many an expert says that there is a certain affinity between (Capablanca's style) and that of the world master, Lasker. There may… — Jacques Mieses Copy Share Image
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
“the shadows. “Why do you think they invented chess?” “He’s got you there,” said the captain, following Fletcher. Jake jogged slightly to… — Russell Blake Copy Share Image
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