There is technology where you can watch the match live online and also on TV. If people understood the game, I'm sure… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
The election of Trump threw the chess board up. The pieces are all over the place. That's upsetting to a lot of… — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to… — Jan Hein Donner Copy Share Image
As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
“They agree that chess training only improves chess skills but disagree that classroom training (almost) only improves classroom skills.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20… — Eric Sykes Copy Share Image
On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and… — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as… — Willard Fiske Copy Share Image
Capablanca was among the greatest of chess players, but not because of his endgame. His trick was to keep his openings simple,… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Since your mental state can have such dramatic effects on your body, obviously your physical condition can affect your mental well-being. It… — Pal Benko 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
What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Had I not played the Sicilian with Black I could have saved myself the trouble of studying for more than 20 years… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Chess programs don't play chess the way humans play chess. We don't really know how humans play chess, but one of the… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high… — Carol Mann Copy Share Image
When I was in grade school I was into chess club, Latin club, D&D, computer camp - everything that made vaginas go… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But… — Peter Mayhew 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
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
Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's… — Alexandra Kosteniuk Copy Share Image
Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
I am pleased that in a match for the World Championship I was able to conduct a game in the style of… — Boris Gelfand Copy Share Image
The choice of opening, whether to aim for quiet or risky play, depends not only on the style of a player, but… — Efim Geller 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
The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn. — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game. — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and… — Hojo Soun 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
Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
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
One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
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