Playing Chess Quotes

36 Playing Chess quotes by 33 unique authors

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess. — Kobe Bryant
The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what the moves in… — Martin Rees
The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It… — H.G. Wells
Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks. — Jennifer Shahade
The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world — H.G. Wells
It's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are… — Jon Stewart
One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing… — Scarlett Thomas
I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up. — Magnus Carlsen
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant… — Douglass North
I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because… — Vladimir Kramnik
Playing chess has many aspects that can be useful in everyday situations like planning, concentration and combinations. You learn to win but also to lose… — Judit Polgar
Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts around… — Vladimir Putin
Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's… — Bai Juyi
But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If… — Dorothy Dunnett
When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that… — Viswanathan Anand
We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but… — Hod Lipson
Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together. — Pat Ament
When Grand Masters play, they see the logic of their opponent's moves. One's moves may be so powerful that the other may not be able… — Mark Taimanov
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. — David Hockney
It's important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally think too many… — 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
I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of… — Charles Bukowski
I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow. — Jerry Spinelli
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
Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is… — Frank Herbert

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