The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
Many an expert says that there is a certain affinity between (Capablanca's style) and that of the world master, Lasker. There may… — Jacques Mieses Copy Share Image
I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go… — Debby Ryan Copy Share Image
Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure;… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The queen was my favorite chess piece. Unlike the women I knew in real life, she was powerful. Her job was to… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes… — Howard Staunton Copy Share Image
“No, no, I just…you seem to be really good at this, is all.” “Do I?” She finished the marking and started sorting… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh,… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of… — Jonny Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“Love was full of secrets. Love masked so many evils. Love controlled people, it lied to them, it made them believe things… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
I love chess, and I didn't invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
If possible, be Russian. And live in another country. Play chess. Be an active trader between languages. Carry precious metals from one… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When Alekhine recognizes the weakness in his position he has a tendency to become very aggressive. Patient defence is not for him… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
“So if you think that when you are better, it means that you can smash ahead and mate the guy, you are… — Josh Waitzkin Copy Share Image
Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It's not like I'm trying to make… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
“Aye. Freaky iffen you ask me. But guessing that what Terrible like, aye. What he deserve sneaking off into the bathroom with… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
When you ride your bike, you're working your legs, but your mind is on a treadmill. When you play chess, your mind… — Pat Ament Copy Share Image
Chess - it's a nonmainstream game. And the irony is that when you look at Hollywood, it kept using chess as the… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“I do not know how old I was when I learned to play chess. I could not have been older than eight,… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
At one point I had a very complicated plan to use the game of chess as a generating structure for writing. I… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
In my experience, when I went to school, and especially in after-school, and during breaks, a lot of people wanted to sit… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
I love chess very much. I love the game, the challenges. I could motivate myself as I was curious about how to… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
“It's not just about linking an undesired social mythology that may or may not even exist to something (whatever) that has a… — Xavier Lastra Copy Share Image
I play chess about four hours a day in training camp. You have to decide what move to use, or what combination… — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
If you talk to some of the older players, they definitely say they see beauty in certain games. In my case, there… — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
“If you sit down and think about it sensibly , you come up with some very funny ideas. Like: why make people… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I am most challenged by playing cash games against the world's top players. These games force me to think several moves in… — Daniel Negreanu Copy Share Image
For 'Inhuman,' it's a 'chess game' series. You have a lot of pieces moving different ways at once, and it's about what… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I like to play chess. I moved to a small town, and nobody played chess there, but one guy challenged me to… — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
You playing chess well is just a reflection of your inner thought process and your ability to maintain discipline throughout. If we… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
