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Quotes About Chess

When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.
~ Boris Spassky
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.
~ Magnus Carlsen
Life is not like the game of chess. There are not only black and white pieces. There are gray figures, solitary knights, and equivocal characters who never get caught.
~ Lucas Delattre
It's too bad war makes people disappear like chess pieces, and that prisons turn prisoners into movie endings.
~ Major Jackson
I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength. It was a strategy for winning arguments, respect for others, and eventually thought neither of us knew it at the time, chess games... Come from the South, blow from the wind -- poom!-- North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen.
~ Amy Tan
I also found out why I should never reveal the why to others. A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use. That is the power of chess. It is a game of secrets in which one must show and never tell.
~ Amy Tan
I also found out why i should never reveal why to others. A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use. That is the power of chess. It is a game of secrets in which one must show and never tell.
~ Amy Tan
Only Uncle Pascha ignored her. He was contemplating his chessboard. She doubted that he'd move his piece today. It had been his turn for only six months. Once, he had gone three years between moves. He preferred a leisurely game.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
107. To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dalton regarded his chess opponent, from whom the outburst had come. "What on earth has got into you?" Lord Peter sat back, a triumphant smirk on his lips. "I moved!" "Well, congratulations. What did you move?" "Bishop to
~ John DeChancie
Well, if I'm not mistaken, if I take your king's
~ John DeChancie
A person who plays own life as a game of a chess only creates mess and so generates often strain & stress in the life of the people.
~ Anuj Somany
The people who create strain & stress for the population play life as a chess and they could be seen talking of making moves like queen, rook, bishop, knight and others.
~ Anuj Somany
Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not.
~ Howard Staunton
The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.
~ Howard Staunton
The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces.
~ Howard Staunton
It's certainly an honor to have kids who are looking up to me, but at the same time, I'm just trying to do what I can to raise the profile of chess.
~ Hikaru Nakamura
In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as you're composing all of the ramifications of each move, of each choice you make.
~ Adam Ross
'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.
~ James Bobin
I'm resigned to living in a chess-type universe—few and simple rules, but infinite combinations of them.
~ Fritz Leiber
MCO-Modern Chess Openings. It lists all the best open-moves in chess, thousands and thousands of variations. That is, what masters think
~ Fritz Leiber
he was a sporadically ardent chess player now in the midst of a sporad.
~ Fritz Leiber
There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.
~ Bobby Fischer
Time and again, players lose because they make rash decisions. Therefore, you always have to remind yourself - don't hurry. Embarking on a risky combination that cannot be calculated to the end is certainly not the right thing to do.
~ Daniel Naroditsky