Quotes About Chess

chess was more than a game. Chess could be a way to live her life. They had played at night, after dinner and homework. Before a crackling fire, Patsy taught Keera to evaluate before reacting to an opponent's moves. He taught her to strategize, to consider not just her next move, but her opponent's options and how she would counter each. He told her the best trial lawyers were strong chess players.

Being right on a stock had something of the purity of a perfect move in chess; it had an intellectual resonance.

Everyone found Grant modest and retiring, an altogether likable fellow. "His only dissipation was in owning a fast horse," said a regimental colleague. "He always liked to have a fine nag, and he paid high prices to get one."Grant enjoyed playing chess and checkers, attending parties with Julia, and worshipping with her at the Methodist church.

John Adams summed up the case succinctly: "In general, our generals have been outgeneralled.

The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.

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

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.

The strategies of offense and defense are very similar between chess and football. Chess really brought closeness to the team back in those days.

A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.

I've never played,' said von Igelfeld. 'Nor I,' said Unterholzer. 'Chess, yes. Tennis no.' 'But that's no reason not to play,' von Igelfeld added quickly. 'Tennis, like any activity, can be mastered if one knows the principles behind it. In that respect it must be like language. The understanding of simple rules produces an understanding of a language. What could be simpler?

Sometimes, all company forsaking, They settle to a game of chess And, leaning on a table, guess What move the other may be making, And Lensky with a dreamy look, Allows his pawn to take his rook.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess. And you don't find out 'til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along." —Terry Pratchett

Bobbie Fischer was considered the greatest chess player who ever lived, and he ended up losing complete touch with reality. John Nash, a brilliant mathematician who developed game theory, was debilitated by paranoid schizophrenia. There are

When I have White, I win because I am white. When I have Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov.

In the game of chess, an experienced player may take a novice to the brink of defeat in just three moves. The fourth move can be checkmate, and the kingdom is lost.

I can comprehend Alekhine's combinations well enough; but where he gets his attacking chances from and how he infuses such life into the very opening - that is beyond me.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

There was a time in my life when I almost thought I could never lose a single duel of chess.

The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.

Chess is a very interesting game, and like so many interesting games, it is not in any way fun. It looks like four horses lost amongst a variety of pepper mills and salt shakers, and the objective is to remain awake longer than your opponent.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

Outcomes don't tell us what's our fault and what isn't, what we should take credit for and what we shouldn't. Unlike in chess, we can't simply work backward from the quality of the outcome to determine the quality of our beliefs or decisions. This makes learning from outcomes a pretty haphazard process.