Playing chess Quotes · Page 2

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I…

— Magnus Carlsen

My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess,…

— Dorothy Dunnett

Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

— Frank Herbert

Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life.

— Martin Dansky

I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder

— Miguel Najdorf

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

— Benjamin Franklin

To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.

— Mikhail Tal

Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it…

— Pat Ament

I picked it up just for relaxation. I can sit down and get into the game and escape that it's a big…

— Larry Johnson

Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.

— Jennifer Shahade

Actually, one of the fascinating things that I've learned playing chess is that the way you play chess is kind of like…

— Anthony Carrigan

“Wonderful. Now what was I doing, dear?' 'Playing chess with Bogdan.' 'Oh, good. He made me scrambled eggs. And he gave Ron…

— Richard Osman

When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be…

— Aristotle

There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to…

— Mortimer Collins

Well, I think, in large part, when I first began playing chess at seven years old, I was quite bad at it.…

— Hikaru Nakamura

Morphy gained most of his wins by playing directly and simply, and it is simple and logical method that constitutes the true…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

When we were playing chess in the house, she would never let me win until I was good enough to beat her.…

— Alex Bregman

The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon,…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I love the competitive aspect of it [business]. It's like playing chess. Why do people play chess? Knowing the realm of moves?…

— Mark Cuban

I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not…

— Eve Babitz

[Some of the people I'd met] were wonderful people as human beings, and some people were more difficult. I could not see…

— Matthieu Ricard

You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you…

— Eve Babitz

The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what…

— Martin Rees

The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in…

— H. G. Wells

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess

— Bobby Fischer

Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.

— Garry Kasparov

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

— H. G. Wells

When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I…

— Mikhail Tal

These guys are playing checkers. I'm out here playing chess. When they figure it out, it's too late.

— Max Holloway

It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer

— Mikhail Tal

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

True love is like a man playing chess, always afraid of losing his queen.

— Anonymous

If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me

— Bobby Fischer

True love is like a man playing chess. Always afraid to loose his QUEEN.

— Anonymous

In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

— Emanuel Lasker

I think I can safely conclude that there is not a lot to be said for playing chess while on Valium.

— Tony Miles

Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces

— Akiba Rubinstein

Playing chess has many aspects that can be useful in everyday situations like planning, concentration and combinations. You learn to win but…

— Judit Polgar

We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess…

— Hod Lipson

The instances of English prime ministers going out to do sport and embarrassing themselves are plentiful. But with Obama you can actually…

— David James