“Sometimes we play Chess in the game of Life..Never sacrifice your QUEEN or KING...” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear. — Yasser Seirawan Copy Share Image
The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess. — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
I lay em down, tempur-pedic. This shits a game of chess, you niggas think it's cleavage. — Lil Wayne Copy Share Image
The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic. — Boris Gelfand Copy Share Image
Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check! — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
The process of making pieces in Chess do something useful (whatever it may be) has received a special name: it is called… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
He played with enormous energy and great fighting spirit. Offering him a draw was a waste of time. He would decline it… — Lubomir Kavalek Copy Share Image
Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow… — Andrew Soltis Copy Share Image
Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
... far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer… — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“You have a friend named Bug?” “Sure. Why wouldn’t I?” Chess asked. “I have another friend who keeps telling me to call… — J.M. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Finally the novelty came. These days it seems to be normal to play novelties somewhere in the ending. Apart from just being… — Mihail Marin Copy Share Image
[Professor Bragg asserts that] In sodium chloride there appear to be no molecules represented by NaCl. The equality in number of sodium… — Henry Edward Armstrong Copy Share Image
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
It's very encouraging that the game of chess is growing in the U.S. and is becoming more popular. — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
Don't worry about your rating, work on your playing strength and your rating will follow. — Dan Heisman Copy Share Image
Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Many men, many styles; what is chess style but the intangible expression of the will to win. — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
If the defender is forced to give up the center, then every possible attack follows almost of itself. — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
I love the chess game that I do on 'Suits.' I just love every bit of it and that I get to… — Gina Torres Copy Share Image
There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose! — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments. — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
I don't know what I am going to play, so how can he know what I am going to play! — Arthur Bisguier Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, it requires a significant number of Chess moves to make the universe align.” — James Qualls Copy Share Image
To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification. — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
“I’ve always found chess to be a bit too much like real life to provide much enjoyment as a game.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only. — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image