Top 1200 Chess Match Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game.

Remy you're my king." I hug him hard. "There's no chess game for me without you.

Online chess is very popular and cool, don't get me wrong, but it is a different discipline.

My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +-

I think I can safely conclude that there is not a lot to be said for playing chess while on Valium.

Here in Italy, football is more like a chess game. You have to think about every move.

A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.

You always have to be keeping track, especially in this scenario [ The Hateful Eight], of where everybody is. They're pieces on a chess board.

Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.

To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.

Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.

Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.

It might sound a little weird that, you know, chess streaming has a community, but really it does.

The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.

Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning.

Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.

The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.

In chess, you have to bring all the pieces into the game. It is about development. In writing, you have to develop the story.

Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate!

Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

There was a time in my life when I almost thought I could never lose a single duel of chess.

I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'

I have to constantly work on my reflexes and hand-eye coordination. I do a lot of puzzles. I play chess.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever

I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.

Wilhelm Steinitz was the first man to appreciate the inherent logic behind the game of chess.

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me.

The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.

Everyone was like, "Why do you need to meet someone on Match.com?" My response was, "I certainly don't need to meet more of the same broke, acting class guys that I'd been dating my whole life." I needed to change that whole paradigm. So, I decided to meet some corporate guys and see how that worked. So, I went on Match, but I didn't put a picture up, because I'm on television, and I didn't want anybody contacting me for the wrong reasons. So, I had to do the hunting, as it were. I didn't anticipate meeting my husband online, but there he was. And it all worked out!

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son

Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

I think for me the main goal that I have, or at least what I really aspire to, is to raise the level of chess.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.

Coaching secrets? I don't think I got any. The main "secret" - love for chess.

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.

Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

My younger brother ended up the British chess champion 10 times, a record.

I stopped taking notes on my Palm Pilot and started playing the little chess game.

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.

I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life