Chessboard Quotes
39 quotes by 34 authors
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Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one…
— Carlos Castaneda
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I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of chess…
— Vlastimil Hort
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Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard
— Reuben Fine
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All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves
— Bobby Fischer
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On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long
— Emanuel Lasker
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Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the…
— Al-Masudi
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The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly,…
— Marcel Duchamp
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The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard
— Aron Nimzowitsch
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Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for…
— Magnus Carlsen
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The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated
— Frederick Sommer
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I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from…
— Teju Cole
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Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in…
— Emanuel Lasker
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An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.
— Savielly Tartakower
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There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world
— Pierre Mac Orlan
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On the chessboard, if nowhere else, justice does triumph.
— Irving Chernev
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It is important that you don't let your opponent impose his style of play on you. A part of that begins mentally. At the chessboard…
— Viswanathan Anand
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I learnt an enormous amount, but there came a point where I found there was too much stress. It was no fun any more. Outside…
— Magnus Carlsen
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You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player.
— Marc Lowrance
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That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and…
— Richard Bach
Who Wrote These Chessboard Quotes
34 authors contributed a total of 39 Chessboard Quotes, led by these top contributors: