Top 1200 Chess Match Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Chess demands total concentration

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

That's right, Mitt Romney took on Evander Holyfield in a boxing match for charity, and it was a pretty one-sided fight. But it was still not the worst boxing match we've seen this month. This weekend Vladimir Putin played in an exhibition hockey game with some former NHL players and scored eight goals. Even Evander Holyfield and Mitt Romney said, 'That looks fake.'

Chess is 99 percent calculation.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

Chess is, above all, a fight.

Life is too short for chess.

The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it... He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that...in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.

In chess there is a world of intellectual values.

Chess is a fathead and feudal game.

Chess is like war on a board

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

My worlds are completely different. Painting is a peaceful world, and it's a different vibe than having a great match. You are able to look back at what you created when you finish. Recording music is an entirely different monster. When you finally write something, you do a demo and then you go into the studio. Doing the master version, that's the best feeling ever - especially when you're so proud of what you've written, and you can't wait for people to hear it. That's actually very similar to trying to tell a story in a wrestling match.

Chess is a natural cerebral high.

Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory.

Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.

Life's too short for chess.

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

Chess is most certainly not my life.

We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!

Combination is a soul of chess.

Chess is a cure for headaches.

Botvinnik was a killer in chess.

Chess is mental torture.

You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.

Chess taught me patience.

Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.

I'm a pretty good chess player.

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.

All Chess players should have a hobby

There just isn't enough televised Chess

Chess is a cold bath for the mind

No fool can play chess, and only fools do.

Chess is a matter of daily training.

Computers have changed the world of chess.

Chess is a sad waste of brains.

The Russians have fixed world chess.

War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.

Chess is eminently and emphatically the philospher's game.

Hold'em is to stud what chess is to checkers.

Chess is a matter of vanity.

Chess is a curse upon a man.

Chess is the art of analysis.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.

Snooker is just chess with balls.

Chess is a miniature version of life.

We had put our son into a little preschool in Los Angeles, and it was just not going well, so we brought him back home. We had every intention of putting him back into a traditional school setting, but we just really couldn't find the right match for him. And then we moved to Georgia and again couldn't find the right match.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic

Chess is a game of bad moves.

In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email and if you manage to get down to the town, there's text messaging and mobile phone calls. If not, the five minutes you get to speak to me on your communal phone is better than nothing. There are the chess nerds who want to invite you to our school for the chess comp next March and there's this town in the middle, planned by Walter Burley Griffin, where we can meet up and protest against our government's refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty." -Jonah Griggs

Tennis is physical chess.

Greatest thing in life: Winning a tennis match. Second greatest thing in life: Losing a tennis match

Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is that you're changing into a hundred other things, but you can't let go. You can only try to match up and never turn into a wolf while he's a rabbit, or a mouse while he's still busy being an owl, a brawny black bull while he's a little blue crab scuttling for shelter. It's harder than it sounds.

A chess tournament disguised as a circus.

I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.