You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer — Andrew Soltis Copy Share Image
If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
“It might have begun a bit like a chess game, but it had taken on its own momentum, and owned both of… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
Blessed be the memory of him who gave the world this immortal game — Alfred George Gardiner Copy Share Image
Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance. — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
“Being a part of the Mafia was like being in a chess game where you had no idea if you were the… — Rachel Van Dyken Copy Share Image
A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy. — Luke McShane Copy Share Image
Someone once described being a Housewife to me as being one big chess game, and in many ways, I guess it is… — Teresa Giudice Copy Share Image
A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
“Psychopaths didn’t have to kill people, after all. The condition was marked by a sincere lack of empathy and an inability to… — V.J. Chambers Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
Making the AI better in a video game is not like making the AI better in, say, a chess game. Making it… — Hideaki Itsuno Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I would call it agony but there is a kind of cyclic frustration. You get one story right and… — George Saunders 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
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
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
Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes… — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents — Yuri Balashov Copy Share Image
If you never give up and you strive hard and focus on every move like a chess game, you will make it.… — Coy Bowles Copy Share Image
Life is like a chess game one wrong move could cost you the game. Think before you make any moves so you… — DL WATSON Copy Share Image
Al Sharpton is not important. He's nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game. — Byron Allen Copy Share Image
To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame.… — Edmar Mednis Copy Share Image
Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
“If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance… — Jan Timman Copy Share Image
Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in… — Viswanathan Anand 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
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
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
You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
“had explicitly been concerned to treat mathematics as if it were a chess game, without asking for a connection with the world.… — Andrew Hodges Copy Share Image
