I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to… — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
Tal's combinations often exert a sort of paralysing influence on the opponent's play. It would seem that the element of surprise plays… — Mark Taimanov Copy Share Image
“The world is one unending chess match, my dear, and I am the one playing it how I please. I poke and… — J.S. Bailey Copy Share Image
“In history and in evolution, progress is always a futile, Sisyphean struggle to stay in the same relative place by getting ever… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
Ultimately chess is just chess - not the best thing in the world and not the worst thing in the world, but… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance. — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Spending most of my time on chess there is not much else I can be much good at but I enjoy spending… — Anish Giri Copy Share Image
“By contrast, he said, the Deep Blue supercomputer that beat him at chess in 1996 and 1997 was simply a very fast… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Malina looked incredulous. "Are you anything more than a Druid?" "Of course I am. I own this shop and I play a… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
The fact that the 7 hours time control allows us to play a great deep game is not of great importance for mass-media. — Alexei Shirov Copy Share Image
You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know. — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
The game of business used to be like football: size mattered. Then it changed to basketball: speed and agility. Today, business is… — Adrian Slywotzky Copy Share Image
Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity,… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
“I wanted to become world champion, and in this respect school couldn’t give me anything… It is better to be one of… — Bobby Fischer 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
The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. Unix was basically his, likewise C's predecessor, likewise much… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
