But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Never Be 'Proud' Nor 'Depressed' For What You Are And 'The Position' You Hold In Society. Remember, After The Game Of Chess,,,… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But… — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess,… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both… — John Fowles 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
My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something,… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
I had been playing a lot of chess and I wasn't really enjoying it, so I decided to go to college to… — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the… — Alexander Koblencs Copy Share Image
About the only time our gut can truly outperform our reason is if we truly have developed a kind of informed intuition.… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour,… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
In both games, you have to think fast. In chess you tend to know all the patterns already, just like in football. — Edgar Davids Copy Share Image
As a kid, chess was the first thing I studied in a structured way that helped me gain the discipline to study… — Mark Spitz Copy Share Image
One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls'… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“Then again, she had-through a bizarre combination of skill, dumb luck and incredible misfortune-managed to build up a file any Debunker would… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
“The yellow-tied patzer had come for beauty, but Ljubo had come for truth. In chess, that means finding not just a good… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
How well you play the game of life comes down to the sum of your choices. Whatever you decide, dont be the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
Strategically important points should be overprotected. If the pieces are so engaged, they get their regard in the fact that they will… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
“His hands on the sides of her face, on her neck, holding her there. "Chessie...shit, Chessie, I love you so bad." His… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething… — Shankarananda Copy Share Image
Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
We don't really know how the game was invented, though there are suspicions. As soon as we discover the culprits, we'll let… — Bruce Pandolfini Copy Share Image
The system set up by F.I.D.E. ... Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion... The Russians arranged it that… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Experience and the constant analysis of the most varied positions builds up a store of knowledge in a player's mind enabling him… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
I don't know if people know this but I am pretty good at chess. I was always on the chess team at… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
The main line of the Yugoslav Attack has become just too vast for most players to study in depth, and anyone intending… — John Nunn Copy Share Image
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