Top 1200 Chess Match Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.

I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.

Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.

Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result.

Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely.

Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion

Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.

Al Sharpton is not important. He's nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game.

You can't follow or understand the game unless you play chess yourself, unlike poker which you can pick up in five minutes.

Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation.

You can learn from every match.

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

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 moves.

You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.

Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality.

You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.

I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through and I don't see them as chess pieces.

How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.

One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.

Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.

The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.

All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out from the rest of the game and stirs one's admiration.

Chess reflects the real world in miniature. Endeavor, struggle, success, and defeat - they are part of each game ever played.

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.

My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.

When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd - the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.

Let the punishment match the offense.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.

You have to take each match as it comes.

Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.

Sadio is a match winner.

Jack White is an extraordinary person because he's like a three-dimensional chess player. He thinks so far ahead.

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.

Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst.

I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow.

Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.

Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words ? if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it in a bar on a rainy night ? do you see both the humor and the volley in the tennis match?

The heel runs the match.

Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it.

In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

There's no match for the silence of GOD.

My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play.

I play football like chess. You have to think a lot and anticipate what could happen after you make your move.

Let deeds match words.

Political analysis is full of chess metaphors, reflecting an old tradition of seeing games as models of physical and social reality.

Crossword puzzles, Sudoku... I'm good at all those things. It's not daily, but I'll do stuff on the airplane. I love playing chess. It's my favorite game.