Checkers Quote by Courtney Love

I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights…

— Raymond Chandler

I think most people are fascinated by chess for that reason. It's just these mystical shapes. It's almost like Harry Potteresque, like wizard's chess…

— Maurice Ashley

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

— George Bernard Shaw

The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.

— Howard Staunton

Chess is a game of bad moves.

— Andrew Soltis

The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.

— Rumi

The game of chess is a metaphor for life... it teaches you strategy and it teaches you the value of knowing where you are,…

— Lupita Nyong'o

Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely.

— Reuben Fine

Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium.…

— Peter Abelard

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

— David Bronstein

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

— Nigel Short

Chess programs don't play chess the way humans play chess. We don't really know how humans play chess, but one of the things we…

— Stuart J. Russell