Chess Quotes

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Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even… — Otto Weininger
One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing… — Scarlett Thomas
My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life. — Magnus Carlsen
I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up. — Magnus Carlsen
I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly. — Magnus Carlsen
Chess is not only knowledge and logic — Alexander Alekhine
I do not play chess â€“ I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the… — Alexander Alekhine
Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves. — Anne Bronte
In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the… — Bruno Schulz
Chess is not something that drives people mad; it is something that keeps mad people sane. — William Hartston
Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any… — Boyd Rice
When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its power. — Hans Ree
Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained in this game… — Lodewijk Prins
I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making… — Maurice Ashley
The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc. — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy. — Andrew Soltis
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have… — Anatol Rapoport
My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs. — Eric Allin Cornell
The pawn is the soul of chess. — Francois-Andre Danican Philidor
The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a… — Norbert Wiener

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