When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development. — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities.… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
It's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It's that the Republicans are playing chess and… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or… — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
“It might have begun a bit like a chess game, but it had taken on its own momentum, and owned both of… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high… — Carol Mann Copy Share Image
It has been stated that a characteristic mark of a combination is surprise; surprise for the defender, not for the assailant, since… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
“Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
A player can sometimes afford the luxury of an inaccurate move, or even a definite error, in the opening or middlegame without… — Paul Keres Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that. — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one. — Fred Reinfeld Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
The psychological effects of having to hold a prospectless position for what might seem an infinite amount of time does nothing to… — Michael Stean Copy Share Image
In chess, you have to bring all the pieces into the game. It is about development. In writing, you have to develop… — Gza Copy Share Image
The game might be divided into three parts, the opening, the middle-game and the end-game. There is one thing you must strive… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
“It would be a pretty good bet that the gods of a world like this probably do not play chess and indeed… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I don't know if I went to the gym, [but] Woody [Harrelson] was 24, and at that point I was like 37,… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
Being a young parent, you can play cricket, football, and I can play chess with my son. In fact, he plays the… — Ayushmann Khurrana Copy Share Image
Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
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