Better Quote by Forest Whitaker

In both games, you have to think fast. In chess you tend to know all the patterns already, just like in football.

— Edgar Davids

I'm not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while, you can…

— Hannu Rajaniemi

I play a lot of chess, just to a bog-average level. But I find it stimulates your mind with all the combinations of different…

— Kurt Maflin

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

I love chess. Having to concentrate, to play against someone else, strategy - having to think ahead. I think all of that is very…

— Carlos Alcaraz

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…

— Magnus Carlsen

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws…

— Thomas Huxley

Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks…

— Stanley Kubrick

Actually, one of the fascinating things that I've learned playing chess is that the way you play chess is kind of like the way…

— Anthony Carrigan

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively…

— Stanley Kubrick

For me, chess is at the same time a game, a sport, a science and an art. And perhaps even more than that,. There…

— Bent Larsen

My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might…

— Dorothy Dunnett