She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French… — Raymond Chandler 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
The game of chess is a metaphor for life... it teaches you strategy and it teaches you the value of knowing where… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I love the game - and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
I get off on the interaction with people, and I love the chess of a movie and particularly - not only in… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
“Chess lied to herself every day; it was just something she did, like taking her pills or making sure she had a… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
Being Jewish myself, I somehow didn't see the problem: who cares what a mentally ill (but strangely likable) individual says? If he… — Jeremy Silman 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 just love fighting. You lock me in there with another guy - that strategy, that game of chess - I'm in… — Frank Mir Copy Share Image
I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the… — Maurice Ashley Copy Share Image
The King plays a most important part in the endgame, and gains in power and activity as the number of pieces on… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
About the only time our gut can truly outperform our reason is if we truly have developed a kind of informed intuition.… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I had been playing a lot of chess and I wasn't really enjoying it, so I decided to go to college to… — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the… — Alexander Koblencs Copy Share Image
The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something,… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
I like the little chess match of how people move through space. I'm not comparing myself to Michelangelo with this analogy, but… — Timothy Miller Copy Share Image
“Intelligence involves a great deal more than the ability to follow rules ( which is what chess-playing program does). It is also… — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
One charming characteristic of many flank attacks I could mention is that they do not very often lead to simplification: if the… — Bent Larsen Copy Share Image
For me, chess is not a profession, it is a way of life, a passion. People may feel that I have conquered… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
“Over the years, they had destroyed all of him, removing hands, arms, and legs and leaving him with substitutes as delicate and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For young players, their minds are not overloaded. I am 54 with four kids and I do many other things. Even if… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
By what right does White, in an absolutely even position, such as after move one, when both sides have advanced 1. e4,… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
It is a game of chess with this city. We'll have to see how it is going to play out. The city… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while,… — Hannu Rajaniemi Copy Share Image
During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works… — Roger Ebert 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
Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand… — Alejandro Ramirez Copy Share Image
Chess holds deep wisdoms of the people. It is truly an image of life, the reflection of human fate that has shown… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage ,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Obviously, in football you can study somebody, but at the same time, once you get out there, I think there's just a… — Kyler Murray Copy Share Image
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've never been one of those actors who plays chess with his career and goes, 'I'm going to wait now and see… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
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