Quotes About Chess

If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

Chess can open up a kid's brain, and develop it in a playful creative way. They can learn playfully about creative, strategic, and logical thinking, and quick problem-solving.

Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.

The sunlight, penetrating the gaps in the tall trees, plays chess on the gravestones, shifting slowly and thoughtfully across the worn old stones. The wind, like a hundred violins, plays perpetually in the topmost branches of the deodars.

One day, he said that what you had to do in any adversarial situation was to kill the king, as in chess. I said people didn't have kings any more. He said he meant the centre of power, but today it wouldn't be a single person, it would be the technological connections.

I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

Time control directly influences the quality of play.

When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.

For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.

The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?

I believe that the best style is a universal one, tactical and positional at the same time.

I was still too weak to understand his chess ideas at that time but I remember being covered in smoke.

The fact that the 7 hours time control allows us to play a great deep game is not of great importance for mass-media.

It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.

He was the captain of the chess club and an A-plus student." – Nick "Why would anyone think he's a demon?" – Tate "The world is insane, and you're asking me for the reasoning of a psycho? I'm not a profiler." – Acheron

Marriage is like a chess match is initiated and the board expands over time until it takes up all of a life.

Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)

Analysing complexity Analysis of complex systems almost always turns on finding recurring patterns in the system's ever-changing configurations. The game of chess provides a useful analogy: a dozen rules determine

The modern chess player's cry of "Checkmate!" is a corruption of the Persian "Shakh Mat!" which translates, "The king is dead!")

Oxford smiled and Kit still knew him well enough to read the pleasure of a chess player who has successfully anticipated his opponent.