Chessboard Quotes

39 Chessboard quotes by 34 unique authors

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
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
Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard — Reuben Fine
All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves — Bobby Fischer
On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long — Emanuel Lasker
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… — Unknown Author
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
The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard — Aron Nimzowitsch
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
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
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
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
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
An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard. — Savielly Tartakower
There are more adventures on a chessboard than on all the seas of the world — Pierre Mac Orlan
On the chessboard, if nowhere else, justice does triumph. — Irving Chernev
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
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
You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player. — Marc Lowrance
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
I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt… — Magnus Carlsen
Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands… — Jason Whitlock
When we talk about 'reproductive rights' this is what we mean. It's the difference between people as objects, and people as agents: between regarding people… — Nafis Sadik
The stock market and the gridiron and the battlefield aren't as tidy as the chessboard, but in all of them, a single, simple rule holds… — Garry Kasparov
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave… — Pope Francis

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