Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you.… — Junior Seau Copy Share Image
[Some of the people I'd met] were wonderful people as human beings, and some people were more difficult. I could not see… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Because I have a passion for the play. My father was a chess teacher, and I learned the play of him as… — Carmen Kass Copy Share Image
I ... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Once upon a time supporters of the Steinitz-Tarrasch school had a very high opinion of a queen-side pawn majority. Modern strategy on… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
There is no one 'best set-up', there are many - you can get to mate in endless ways. And - don't forget!… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
I learned a lot. I really did. Millennium is a state of mind. I always thought of Frank Black as the greatest… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
The Possibilities in racing tactics are almost unlimited, as in a game of chess, for every move there is a counter, for… — Franz Stampfl Copy Share Image
You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
Chess computers do not sweat during time pressure and commit costly blunders. Furthermore, the strength of these programs (over and above their… — Ira Carmen Copy Share Image
Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these… — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
There are some things we do much better than computers, but since most of chess is tactically based they do many things… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as… — Willard Fiske Copy Share Image
Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple,… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and… — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Greg Kaidanov tried to get me to view his behavior as part of what makes him great - if he wouldn't get… — Irina Krush Copy Share Image
All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Since your mental state can have such dramatic effects on your body, obviously your physical condition can affect your mental well-being. It… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
Being a professional chess player is not very family-friendly and I am away quite often playing tournaments, sometimes for 12 days at… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
Had I not played the Sicilian with Black I could have saved myself the trouble of studying for more than 20 years… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I soon realized that it is not enough for a master simply to analyse variations scrupulously just like an accountant. He must… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
How good is Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel anyway? ... to me, Daniel's brilliance has nothing to do with the big numbers he… — Joe Posnanski Copy Share Image
I remember being with a girlfriend who asked me to look over some chess openings with her. I instantly fell asleep. I… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
I cannot think that a player genuinely loving the game can get pleasure just from the number of points scored no matter… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“We can imagine that this complicated array of moving things which constitutes “the world” is something like a great chess game being… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
I grew up with a father who taught me chess at the age of 6 or 7. He'd always beat me. Of… — Stephanie Corneliussen Copy Share Image
For my victory over Capablanca I am indebted primarily to my superiority in the field of psychology. Capablanca played, relying almost exclusively… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
“Another time, he was playing [chess] with his equal, the Duchess of Bourbon, who made a move that inadvertently exposed her king.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“I put my hand on a bishop, my would be assassin, and thought of my father's heights when he won, how he… — Rion Amilcar Scott Copy Share Image
“the shadows. “Why do you think they invented chess?” “He’s got you there,” said the captain, following Fletcher. Jake jogged slightly to… — Russell Blake Copy Share Image
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
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