Top 1200 Chess Match Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Curtis, where was that enthusiasm in the match? You might have won.

Love and happiness is a great match.

Sometimes politics is viewed as a boxing match. So, let's look at movies of last year. You know, you prepare for match like creed. Trump is like "Mad Max: Fury Road." We have never seen anything like this in politics. The kind of race he's going to run. I mean, look, he is winning the nomination. He doesn't prepare for debates. He doesn't run advertising. He gets millions of dollars spent against him, it has no effect, he's not running as sophisticated data driven campaign yet he is winning. As each and every day, you just don't know what you're going to get with this guy.

I should be playing every match.

The substitutes are all on the bench, and that's where they'll start the match.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

I mix and match, from top to bottom.

When I saw 'Chess' in London, I thought it was horrible. It was so static. People were coming down front and just facing the audience, singing.

A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.

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 of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

I try to play one match at a time.

My father was an important person, the director of the school. He could talk to anybody - simple or educated. He liked chess, fishing, and beautiful women.

Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.

Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.

Playing chess has many aspects that can be useful in everyday situations like planning, concentration and combinations. You learn to win but also to lose and to be creative.

You cannot win every match.

I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

Commitment is the match that lights the fire.

A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket

Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.

Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live with - and it lasts a lifetime.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.

If you never give up and you strive hard and focus on every move like a chess game, you will make it. I believe that wholeheartedly.

No one in life can ever match fiction

I like people to match my energy.

For my second match it's pretty good.

It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.

I'm just taking one match at a time.

Why'd you leave the match, huh?

Being professional means 100% is not enough. Number one, two and three in my life was chess. The reality for women is, when a child comes into the picture, priorities change.

I couldn't imagine myself retiring from a match.

It's important to get match rhythm.

For me, learning chess was natural; with my sisters around me, I wanted to play.

I mean, who doesn't love one-on-one match-ups?

It is always disappointing when you miss a match.

Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me.

It does not matter if I'm Man of the Match.

Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity

I love the chess game that I do on 'Suits.' I just love every bit of it and that I get to do it.

Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition. Mostly, I'm interested in doing real sports.

It may look as though two chess players are sitting at the board peacefully calculating possibilities, but in actuality they are seething with a kaleidoscope of emotions.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player

My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

We always prepare for winning the match.

In general there is something puzzling about the fact that the most renowned figures in chess - Morphy, Pillsbury, Capablanca and Fischer - were born in America.

Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.

To me, every match is important.

As a kid, chess was the first thing I studied in a structured way that helped me gain the discipline to study medicine and become successful doctor.

If you don't score you are not going to win a match.

Words that do not match deeds are not important.

My socks DO match. They're the same thickness.

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.

I want my outfit to match my mood.

Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.

From one match to the next, I kept on winning.

The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.