Top 1200 Chess Match Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides the foundation for the continuous development of chess mastery.

In the match, it's all about execution and keeping a clear head.

A Boxing Day Test match is a fantastic occasion.

Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and God endows it with its blessed power of making people happy.

The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.

When I grappled, I never even trained for a grappling match.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

Once you are on court, everything is different. I focus on the match.

I have visited Tromsø and can personally say Tromsø is a beautiful city, well equipped to be an excellent choice for the Chess Olympiad 2014.

Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique.

I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of some sort.

I've very into grays and neutrals. They match with basically everything.

Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.

We will have to go to win. There's no other option. We have one more match.

No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't really understand them.

Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

If you think the products don't match what you want from a product, don't buy it.

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.

I've learned that I have to be more aggressive in that position, when I'm leading the match.

I take every match as a final. It's very important.

There is no point making ourselves nervous before a match.

My first match lasted 10 seconds, and I lost.

But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is like reaching for a salary check in its demand on the contemplative faculties.

There's what we expect bears to do and then there's what they do. Sometimes the two don't match.

There's only one plan in football: win you next match.

I cannot match with anything for the love and affection fans extend.

Nobody can match me with knowing about food.

Sooner or later, everyone has to meet his match.

Being a young parent, you can play cricket, football, and I can play chess with my son. In fact, he plays the piano better than I do.

It was Steinitz who was the first to establish the basic principles of general chess strategy. He was a pioneer and one of the most profound researchers into the thruth of the game, which was hidden from his contemporaries.

There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'.

The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.

A male scorpion is stabbed to death after mating. In chess, the powerful queen often does the same to the king without giving him the satisfaction of a lover.

There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.

The world championship is a disputed title. You've got a situation like boxing. Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified.

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

You are under some sort of pressure to win any match. It is natural.

I suppose it must be true that if you have a bad practice, you'll probably have a good match!

Any match with Keith Lee is definitely circled on my calendar.

I know I need a work ethic to match my talent.

People are already on Match and already going to Starbucks on first dates.

In every match, my only aim will be to win.

It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?

I play chess with the computer when I feel dull in my mind and after two games - 'out or win', I feel sharp again.

When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

My favorite TNA match would have to be the first Ultimate X.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

You see, in chess we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.

Politicians should be dedicated to the welfare of the people, but sometimes politics becomes like a game of chess, in which the sole aim is to stay on board as long as possible.

In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.

I know that it's a fight at the end of the day; it's not a grappling match.

I will do whatever it takes to win a football match.

[...] Tess and I are a good match. She understands intimately where I came from. She can cheer me up on my darkest days. It's as if she came perfectly happy home instead of what Kaede just told me. I feel a relaxing warmth at the thought, realizing suddenly how much I'm anticipating meeting up with Tess again. Where she goes, I go, and vice versa. Peas in a pod. Then there's June. Even the thought of her name makes it hard for me to breathe. I'm almost embarrassed by my reaction. Are June and I a good match? No. It's the first word to pop into my mind. And yet, still.

An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!

Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now