Chess Quotes

1355 quotes by 411 authors

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free. — Ray Manzarek
I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing. — Christopher Meloni
I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess. — Dennis Miller
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. — Emo Philips
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along. — Terry Pratchett
When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of… — Rick Riordan
Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's… — Steve Sabol
The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis… — Marilyn vos Savant
I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.' — Ricky Schroder
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will… — Jerry Seinfeld
A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused. — Nigel Short
It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be… — Jimmy Smits
We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the… — Boris Spassky
When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive. — Boris Spassky
Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though. — Boris Spassky
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense. — Boris Spassky
Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation. — Boris Spassky
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest. — Rabindranath Tagore
Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.' — Daniel Tammet
Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions. — Neil deGrasse Tyson

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