Professional players work almost every day, for hours on end, and the emphasis is on the word 'work.' It can be with… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
Being in the military just lets you know how helpless you are. You could train forever but you're still at the mercy… — Ice T Copy Share Image
I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that… — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even… — Arthur Dean 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
Tis action moves the world…[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board… — Susanna Kearsley Copy Share Image
Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to… — Amy Tan 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'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
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
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
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
“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
Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess.… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
Much time and money has gone into computer chess programs, and so far, no one's figured out how to crack the game,… — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
Fighting Manny Pacquiao is like playing a very fast game of chess. He was very fast and sharp. You have to be… — Jessie Vargas Copy Share Image
I like to say that Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever. But what made Fischer a genius was his ability to… — Bruce Pandolfini Copy Share Image
Once there is the slightest suggestion of combinational possibilities on the board, look for unusual moves. Apart from making your play creative… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just… — Alexandra Kosteniuk Copy Share Image
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on… — Lubomir Kavalek Copy Share Image
Political analysis is full of chess metaphors, reflecting an old tradition of seeing games as models of physical and social reality. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one… — Tobias Wolff 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 teaches the Clausewitzian concepts of “center of gravity” and the “decisive point”—the game usually beginning as a struggle for the center… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
The masters and grandmasters can be divided into three groups - the inveterate time trouble merchants, those who sometimes get into trouble,… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has… — Simen Agdestein Copy Share Image
The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary… — Robert Shea 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
“I learned about opening moves and why it's important to control the center early on; the shortest distance between two points is… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If… — Cecil Purdy Copy Share Image
On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But… — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal… — Anonymous 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
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