Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at. — Dominic Lawson Copy Share Image
I'm used to litigating against incredibly competent, high-quality lawyers that are very good chess players. — Michael Avenatti Copy Share Image
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I want to show how rich chess is and what kind of history it has, through culture, literature, and education. — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee. — Israel Albert Horowitz Copy Share Image
The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
“Playing chess or Go or Tigris and Euphrates—a very good game, by the way—I can watch people as they choose their strategy… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past,… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“It'll be like a game of chess. We can let the game unfold as it did before, but if we want to… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren't as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several… — Brad Lidge Copy Share Image
Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Finally the novelty came. These days it seems to be normal to play novelties somewhere in the ending. Apart from just being… — Mihail Marin Copy Share Image
It's a very special generation, because during our careers the computer entered chess. So we know how to play without computers, which… — Vassily Ivanchuk Copy Share Image
When I start to play a game I try to forget about previous games and try to concentrate on this game. This… — Vassily Ivanchuk Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that… — George Johnson Copy Share Image
If it hadn't been for record people like Ralph Peer, the Chess brothers, and Alan Lomax, then life would've been unbelievably dull,… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
“It would be a pretty good bet that the gods of a world like this probably do not play chess and indeed… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
By the time a player becomes a Grandmaster, almost all of his training time is dedicated to work on this first phase.… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
