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Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.
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.
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.
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.
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.
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.
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.
I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.
I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'
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.
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
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.
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.
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.
I'm used to litigating against incredibly competent, high-quality lawyers that are very good chess players.
Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
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.
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.
I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.
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.
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.
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
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.
My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.
'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.
I love the chess game that I do on 'Suits.' I just love every bit of it and that I get to do it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.
My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.
Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'
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.
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.
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.
Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
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.
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.
I have to constantly work on my reflexes and hand-eye coordination. I do a lot of puzzles. I play chess.
We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.
I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.
No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.
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.
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.
If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.
Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.
I don't think the computer will win the Booker, but no-one ever expected a computer to beat a chess grandmaster.
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