Hmmm! well in the game of chess there is indeed one level but you have to go through many in order to… — Sardar Hyder Abbas Copy Share Image
All that now seems to stand between Nigel and the prospect of the world crown is the unfortunate fact that fate brought… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Earlier in my career, I never thought of boxing as a chess game, but I confirm that they are, in fact, very… — Wladimir Klitschko Copy Share Image
When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl… — Bjork Copy Share Image
“The paradox of illuminating complexity is that it is inherently difficult to do so without erasing all of the nuance.” — David Shenk Copy Share Image
There is technology where you can watch the match live online and also on TV. If people understood the game, I'm sure… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
The night of QB3 is under obligation, the moment the enemy gives him the chance, of undertaking an invasion of the center… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
Once in a Moscow chess club I saw how two first-category players knocked pieces off the board as they were exchanged, so… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained… — Lodewijk Prins Copy Share Image
I would say, you have a unique chance of learning more about the game of chess with your computer than Bobby Fischer,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“So aint you think just causen you in this car now means any damn thing. It aint. He pretending it do, he… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and… — Charles Dickens 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
Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance. — Paul Keres Copy Share Image
The election of Trump threw the chess board up. The pieces are all over the place. That's upsetting to a lot of… — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I keep track of my blog stats, Facebook subs, my Amazon rank, Twitter followers, Facebook likes per posts, my chess ranking. I… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to… — Jan Hein Donner Copy Share Image
Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
“They agree that chess training only improves chess skills but disagree that classroom training (almost) only improves classroom skills.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20… — Eric Sykes 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
Chess programs don't play chess the way humans play chess. We don't really know how humans play chess, but one of the… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But… — Peter Mayhew Copy Share Image
I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
When I was in grade school I was into chess club, Latin club, D&D, computer camp - everything that made vaginas go… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's… — Alexandra Kosteniuk Copy Share Image
Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
The choice of opening, whether to aim for quiet or risky play, depends not only on the style of a player, but… — Efim Geller Copy Share Image
Chess is the only game in the world, which reflects the status of the husband. the poor king can take only one… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image