“If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
A 10,000m race is like a chess game and you are watching, wondering what's going on and what's going to happen. — Colin Jackson Copy Share Image
If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
You will need to be as cunning, clever, and ruthless as a con man and a chess master combined to get out… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations. — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
The way you have to think in chess is good for everyday thinking, really, especially for brothers in the urban community who… — Rza Copy Share Image
Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
“He can see what move I'm planning to make in chess and counters before I can do it. He always knows who… — Sangu Mandanna Copy Share Image
Whenever Black succeeds in assuming the initiative in maintaining it to a successful conclusion, the sporting spirit of the chess lover feels… — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly. — Katherine Neville Copy Share Image
Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever — Dave Regis Copy Share Image
A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe… — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
Life is like playing chess with God. Your moves are called CHOICE and His moves are called CHALLENGES — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Once a computer beat me at chess,but it was no match for me at kickboxing.stupid bitches — Author Name Copy Share Image
Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow… — Frank Brady Copy Share Image
A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves. — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
“I am willing to take life as a game of chess in which the first rules are not open to discussion. No… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
