Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Instead of critics reviewing my movies, now what they're really doing is trying to match wits with me. Every time they review… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
While some are as loathe to trade a Bishop for a Knight as a Cadillac for a Chevrolet, others are prepared to… — Larry Evans Copy Share Image
A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover. — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
I address these hopes to all young players. It seems to me that they often begin too early the strict life of… — Sergei Shipov 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
The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
I don't know what I am going to play, so how can he know what I am going to play! — Arthur Bisguier Copy Share Image
If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
There's never before been a Chess player with such a thorough knowledge of the intricacies of the game and such an absolutely… — Lisa Lane Copy Share Image
We don't really know how the game was invented, though there are suspicions. As soon as we discover the culprits, we'll let… — Bruce Pandolfini Copy Share Image
“Death stoops over me. I'm a problem in chess. He has the solution.” — Tomas Tranströmer Copy Share Image
It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning… — Samuel Reshevsky Copy Share Image
The game of chess. Supposedly men made it up, and it's about war and men and the ravages and the bravery and… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
