“If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white.” — Zenna Henderson Copy Share Image
Chess - it's a nonmainstream game. And the irony is that when you look at Hollywood, it kept using chess as the… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
There is no physical punishment in chess; suffering goes on inside the mind. You defend a bad position for hours, you suffer.… — Lubomir Kavalek Copy Share Image
When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll… — Al Leiter Copy Share Image
Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents — Yuri Balashov Copy Share Image
Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
An exception was made with respect to me, because of my victory over Marshall. Some of the masters objected to my entry… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Campo, as everyone in chess recognized, had a 2600 rating as a politician. — Raymond Keene Copy Share Image
“She strove for poised composure, despite feeling like a powerless pawn in a despicable game of human chess, played for the amusement… — Collette Cameron Copy Share Image
For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence… — Mark Dvoretsky Copy Share Image
I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning. — Gza Copy Share Image
The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem… — Bobby Fischer 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
At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk - games I find far less addictive than the spectacular… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
