Chess Player Quotes

55 Chess Player quotes by 40 unique authors

I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It… — Viswanathan Anand
The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so… — Joseph Heller
Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your… — C.S. Lewis
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all… — Edgar Allan Poe
But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess… — William Golding
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
I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be… — Viswanathan Anand
The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if… — Viswanathan Anand
Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. -NeSha — Ralph Charell
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. — Unknown Author
These three causes distrust: a smoking doctor, a laughing priest and a combed chess player. — Ashot Nadanian
Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to manuever you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your… — C.S. Lewis
Be the chess player not the chess pieces. — Akila Sultana

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