Chess Quotes

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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego. — Bobby Fischer
We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but… — Hod Lipson
It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter,… — A A Milne
For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting… — Craig Claiborne
The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it. — Al Leiter
Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to… — Frederick Lenz
Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and… — Joshua Waitzkin
I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because… — Joshua Waitzkin
My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so… — Joshua Waitzkin
Play as often as you can. — Mary Anne Radmacher
A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the Soviet Union. He… — George Mikes
[Professor Bragg asserts that] In sodium chloride there appear to be no molecules represented by NaCl. The equality in number of sodium and chlorine atoms… — Henry Edward Armstrong
Little boys are still playing the game [baseball], more little girls are playing, and it is still the world's most interesting game, a duel, a… — Robert Lipsyte
I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three… — Gary Vaynerchuk
The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a… — Amber Benson
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good. — Magnus Carlsen
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common. — Magnus Carlsen
Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else. — Magnus Carlsen
I was lucky enough to attend schools where they were understanding about when I needed to go abroad to play chess. Of course, socially it… — Magnus Carlsen
Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have… — Magnus Carlsen

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