Chess Quote by Noah Boyd

“I’ve always found chess to be a bit too much like real life to provide much enjoyment as a game.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

“The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in charge of them. And it's your ability…

— Bono

“In life, as in chess, it is always better to analyze one's motives and intentions.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I don't know how to play chess, but to me, life is like a game of chess.”

— Thierry Guetta

“While reading Kasparov’s book How Life Imitates Chess on my Kindle, I idly clicked on “popular highlights” to see what passages other readers had…

— Clive Thompson

“Life is a game of Chess...We move with every change...”

— Anonymous

“...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present. JOURNALIST. And your plans. PLAYER. To play!”

— Mikhail Tal

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

— Howard Staunton

“But a man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end…

— Fydor Dostoyevsky

“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 Henry Huxley

“...mention chess and most people's eyes glaze over. They think of two old geezers, one of whom has died but no one has noticed,…

— Charles Krauthammer