Chess Quote by Sangu Mandanna

“I had chosen to play the detective—and if there is one thing that unites all the detectives I've ever read about, it's their inherent…

— Anthony Horowitz

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

— Mikhail Tal

“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Death stoops over me. I'm a problem in chess. He has the solution.”

— Tomas Tranströmer

“I like to play chess. I moved to a small town, and nobody played chess there, but one guy challenged me to checkers. I…

— Peter Hessler

“I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.”

— John Buchan

“Like I said, I am typically an observant man. Sherlock Holmes and I, we could hang out.”

— Emma Chase

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

— Thierry Guetta

“Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy.”

— Wahida Clark

“The very thing that makes him a great killer makes him very much unsuitable for anything else.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

“Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at…

— Agatha Christie

“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