Annoyed Quote by Terry Pratchett

Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between…

— Anderson Cooper

Regardless of Bobby's recent hate-filled rantings, which I abhor, he is nonetheless one of the greatest chessplayers of all time.

— Frank Brady

The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were…

— Joseph Heller

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess

— Siegbert Tarrasch

“Over the years, they had destroyed all of him, removing hands, arms, and legs and leaving him with substitutes as delicate and useless as…

— Ray Bradbury

The huge egos of great chess players are legendary. Psychologists have been amazed by their vanity, have studied it, and anecdotes concerning it are…

— Israel Albert Horowitz

He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got…

— Leonard Cohen

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

— William Hazlitt

He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the…

— Irene Nemirovsky

I was still too weak to understand his chess ideas at that time but I remember being covered in smoke.

— Alexei Shirov

He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez