Chess Quote by Alexander Kotov

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

— Alexander Kotov

It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun…

— Lewis Carroll

I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with…

— Steve Carell

Here is a definition which correctly reflects the course of thought and action of a grandmaster: - The plan in a game of chess…

— Alexander Kotov

Once upon a time supporters of the Steinitz-Tarrasch school had a very high opinion of a queen-side pawn majority. Modern strategy on the other…

— Alexander Kotov

Each place its own mind, its own psyche! Oak, Madrone, Douglas fir, red-tailed hawk, serpentine in the sandstone, a certain scale to the topography,…

— David Abram

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

— Michael Polanyi

The topography of L.A. is fascinating.

— KT Tunstall

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

— Tony Snow

Science is the topography of ignorance.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

— Elizabeth Bishop

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

— Bill Watterson