Chess Quotes
1355 quotes by 411 authors
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Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email and if you…
— Melina Marchetta
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A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if…
— Patricia Briggs
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She looks at me out of the side of her uncovered eye. "Chess, Zombie: defending yourself from the move that hasn't happened yet. Does it…
— Rick Yancey
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Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board…
— Sophie Kinsella
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Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Remy you're my king." I hug him hard. "There's no chess game for me without you.
— Katy Evans
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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
— Amar Bose
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I don't like politics especially in chess. All I want is promote chess 24/7.
— Susan Polgar
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In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.
— Garry Kasparov
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You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.
— Che Guevara
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It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.
— Garry Kasparov
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Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these four people (Antoshion…
— Viktor Korchnoi
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A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.
— Unknown Author
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Politicians should be dedicated to the welfare of the people, but sometimes politics becomes like a game of chess, in which the sole aim is…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
— John Fowles
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Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis…
— Marcus du Sautoy
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For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.
— Jeff Garlin
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Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win -…
— John Rhys-Davies
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