Quotes About Chess

A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.

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.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

For Germany, the war was like an end game in chess in which she possessed one castle less than her adversary. The loss of the war was as certain as the loss of an end game under these conditions.

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

I want to be ranked in the top 100 players. If I can achieve that, I'll think about the world championship.

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

When you're 17 and 18 is when you get really good, and in college, you have to put the chess aside.

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

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.

Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.

Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate!

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

Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition. Mostly, I'm interested in doing real sports.

A lot of people see a future where you could make a living as a chess player.

It's very encouraging that the game of chess is growing in the U.S. and is becoming more popular.

I grew up with a father who taught me chess at the age of 6 or 7. He'd always beat me. Of course. I was a kid of 6 or 7. After he won, he'd look at me and say, 'It's good to be king.' And then he'd say, 'But you know what's even better? To rule the world.'

I like all sorts of games that make you think. Chess is one of the games I play a lot, read a lot of books.

If you are serious about being a professional chess player, do know what your parents think and what their expectations are from you.

I see myself used in terms of reading mismatches. If it's small, go inside. If it's big, come outside. And if it's in between, then work him, make him think you're going outside, go back inside. Just play chess.

Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns.

Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.

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