At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board. — William Ewart Napier Copy Share Image
I don't know whether computers are improving the style of play, I know they are changing it. Chess has become a different… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
Repeating moves in an ending can be very useful. Apart from the obvious gain of time on the clock one notices that… — Sergey Belavenets Copy Share Image
We are studying the opponent all the time and it is maybe about chess and finding the right move at the right… — Ralph Hasenhuttl Copy Share Image
Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
“It was her problem, and she'd deal with it. Because dealing with personal problems was so fucking high on her list of… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
But how difficult it can be to gain the desired full point against an opponent of inferior strength, when this is demanded… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I've never been one of those actors who plays chess with his career and goes, 'I'm going to wait now and see… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage ,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Obviously, in football you can study somebody, but at the same time, once you get out there, I think there's just a… — Kyler Murray Copy Share Image
War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Chess holds deep wisdoms of the people. It is truly an image of life, the reflection of human fate that has shown… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person… — Bai Juyi Copy Share Image
When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
“had explicitly been concerned to treat mathematics as if it were a chess game, without asking for a connection with the world.… — Andrew Hodges Copy Share Image
Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Talking of first times Stephanie, I bet your first time was really memorable for you and the captain ot the football team… — Chris Jericho Copy Share Image
I love chess. Having to concentrate, to play against someone else, strategy - having to think ahead. I think all of that… — Carlos Alcaraz Copy Share Image
How well you play the game of life comes down to the sum of your choices. Whatever you decide, don't be the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive… — Michael Basman 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
Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally… — Larry Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending… — Rudolf Spielmann Copy Share Image
One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite. — Yuri Razuvaev Copy Share Image
My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play. — Vasily Smyslov Copy Share Image
“But a man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not… — Fydor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
GARRY U ARE MY KING OF CHESS...AS U ACHIEVED LOTSIN URS LIFE..I LIKE U AS HUMAN BEING AND URS ATTITUDE VERY MUCH… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great thing about chess is it's a game for oneself. You don't work on what you can't control, you just work… — Daniel Naroditsky Copy Share Image
Chess is, in essence, a game for children. Computers have exacerbated the trends towards youth because they now have an immensely powerful… — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
The machine does not teach playing flexibility, does not help in taking account of human facxtors in the battle, and on whole,… — Sergei Shipov Copy Share Image
