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

Quotes by Yuliya Snigir

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

Quotes by Woody Allen

Chess is not for timid souls.

Quotes by Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

Quotes by Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

Quotes by Vladimir Kramnik

For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

Quotes by Vladimir Kramnik

When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.

Quotes by Vladimir Kramnik

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

Quotes by Viswanathan Anand

I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be in the one city where there was a sprouting chess team: Chennai.

Quotes by Viswanathan Anand

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

Quotes by Viktor Korchnoi

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

Quotes by Solomon Burke

I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

Quotes by Saffron Burrows

What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.

Quotes by Ryan Stiles

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

Quotes by Roger Penrose

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

Quotes by Robert Mundell

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

Quotes by Ricky Schroder

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

Quotes by Rex Stout

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

Quotes by Raymond Chandler

We are studying the opponent all the time and it is maybe about chess and finding the right move at the right moment and that makes this so interesting.

Quotes by Ralph Hasenhuttl

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.

Quotes by Olivia Holt

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

Quotes by Nigel Short

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Quotes by Nicolas Chamfort

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm used to litigating against incredibly competent, high-quality lawyers that are very good chess players.

Quotes by Michael Avenatti

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

Quotes by Max Euwe

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

Quotes by Marcel Duchamp

A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality.

Quotes by Marcel Duchamp

In chess, there are some extremely beautiful things in the domain of movement, but not in the visual domain. It's the imagining of the movement or of the gesture that makes the beauty in this case.

Quotes by Marcel Duchamp

I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.

Quotes by Marcel Duchamp

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.

Quotes by Mal Peet

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

Quotes by Magnus Carlsen

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

Quotes by Magnus Carlsen

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

Quotes by Magnus Carlsen

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

Quotes by Magnus Carlsen

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

Quotes by Magnus Carlsen

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

Quotes by Magnus Carlsen

If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.

Quotes by Lennox Lewis

The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.

Quotes by Kyle Korver

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Quotes by Kobe Bryant

Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and internal issues with my chess life. Tai chi is the martial embodiment of Taoist philosophy. Initially, I had no intention of competing in the martial arts; it was just the meditation.

Quotes by Joshua Waitzkin

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

Quotes by John Turturro

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

Quotes by Jeff Nichols

'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.

Quotes by James Bobin

Life's to short for chess.

Quotes by Henry James Byron

Life's too short for chess.

Quotes by Henry James Byron

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

Quotes by Gina Torres

Chess is mental torture.

Quotes by Garry Kasparov

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

Quotes by Felix Frankfurter

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

Quotes by Eric Bogosian

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

Quotes by Eric Allin Cornell

I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.

Quotes by Emma Watson

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.

Quotes by Douglass North

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.

Quotes by Donna McKechnie

Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.

Quotes by Donald E. Westlake

I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.

Quotes by David Bailey

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

Quotes by Dave Barry

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

Quotes by Daniel Tammet

I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.

Quotes by Dallas Roberts

I grew up with 'Chess' and the music from the show.

Quotes by Craig Revel Horwood

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

Quotes by Clive James

I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.

Quotes by Christopher Meloni

I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.

Quotes by Chris Hardwick

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Quotes by Charles Buxton

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

Quotes by Boris Spassky

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

Quotes by Boris Spassky

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.

Quotes by Boris Spassky

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

Quotes by Boris Spassky

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

Quotes by Boris Spassky

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

Quotes by Boris Spassky

Chess is life.

Quotes by Bobby Fischer

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

Quotes by Bobby Fischer

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

Quotes by Bobby Fischer

There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely. That's what I don't like.

Quotes by Bobby Fischer

Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.

Quotes by Bobby Fischer

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

Quotes by Bernard Hopkins

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

Quotes by Arnon Goldfinger

Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

Quotes by Anatoly Karpov

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

Quotes by Anatoly Karpov

In Kansas I have a chess school.

Quotes by Anatoly Karpov

No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

Quotes by Anatoly Karpov

My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.

Quotes by Anatoly Karpov

If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all.

Quotes by Anatoly Karpov

If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.

Quotes by Alexandra Kosteniuk

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

Quotes by Alexandra Kosteniuk

Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.

Quotes by Alexandra Kosteniuk

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

Quotes by Alexander Alekhine

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

Quotes by Alexander Alekhine

I don't think the computer will win the Booker, but no-one ever expected a computer to beat a chess grandmaster.

Quotes by Alastair Reynolds

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

Quotes by Al Leiter

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