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Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.


Ralph Charell

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MAGNUS CARLSEN I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that...
VISWANATHAN ANAND I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundati...
GARRY KASPAROV Each player is rated on points and most ratings are based on games that last two or three hours. The...
JOE LAWLOR One of the features of chess is that chess does not acquire mass character.
ILKIN SANTAK Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more pos...
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ANATOLY KARPOV The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a...
MARCEL DUCHAMP I feel that my chess strengths are still here, ... I believe I can still improve.
GARRY KASPAROV The kids beg for chess. They'd rather have extra chess time than prizes.
PAM HICKS I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be mo...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be mo...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not ch...
IRVING CHERNEV Life is like a game of chess, if your not first your last.
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PAOLO BACIGALUPI I learned about opening moves and why it's important to control the center early on; the shortest di...
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STEFAN ZWEIG I am lucky, ... that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.
GARRY KASPAROV My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.
MAGNUS CARLSEN These three causes distrust: a smoking doctor, a laughing priest and a combed chess player.
ASHOT NADANIAN The London Stock Exchange is a critical piece on the chess board. So you have to put a big premium o...
DOUG ATKIN Chess is not for timid souls.
WILHELM STEINITZ Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save ...
C.S. LEWIS As a chess player one has to be able to control one’s feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine...
LEVON ARONIAN Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.
ALEXANDRA KOSTENIUK Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of th...
BORIS SPASSKY I play golf, and I play chess, and sometimes I go to the gym. On the airplane or between acts when I...
ILDAR ABDRAZAKOV Life and light made up the interior, the realm of daytime. The exterior was darkness and night.
CHESS DESALLS Rigging a loudspeaker and a microphone at both ends of a sewer pipe.
LEONARD CHESS A primitive system of tape delay.
LEONARD CHESS Chess is not only knowledge and logic.
ALEXANDER ALEKHINE The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be t...
VISWANATHAN ANAND like a three-dimensional chess game. . . . The key is that the messages not be too far apart.
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ANON. If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.
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MAL PEET Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
FELIX FRANKFURTER Chess – the wrestling grounds of meditative brains.
MARIANA FULGER Sailing is like chess on the water.
DAVE REYNOLDS When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece...in order to win.
LIONEL SUGGS Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
MARCEL DUCHAMP Chess is life.
BOBBY FISCHER The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
CHESSMASTER SAVIELLY GRIGORIEVITCH TARTAKOWER All women are inferior to men.
GARRY KASPAROV Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.
RAYMOND CHANDLER Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, wh...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW "When I am white I win because I am white. When I am black I win because I am Bogoljubov
EFIM BOGOLJUBOV My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.
DAVE BARRY Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
CHESSMASTER SAVIELLY GRIGORIEVITCH TARTAKOWER Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life.
MARTIN DANSKY A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among...
NORBERT WIENER The game was low-scoring, like a chess match. It came down to the end of the game and I think we wer...
BARBARA JACOBS At that level it's like a chess match on a bike. You've got to learn all the strategies.
ANTHONY GALLINO She wasn’t considering it, not really….but he did have a point. It was her job. Save the cold, a...
STACIA KANE Most Debunkers spent their money on actual things, rather than just buying anything they could swall...
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STACIA KANE When you see a good move, look for a better one
EMANUEL LASKER Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger...
DAVE BARRY Chess is war without the blood and gore
DARWIN HENRY BEUNING Chess is mental torture.
GARRY KASPAROV You have to be cool under pressure. You have to be a strategist like chess and you have to use geome...
BILL MCBRIDE These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.
KOBE BRYANT Chess had never received this much importance.
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GARY HATCH It was a little bit of a chess match.
GENE MCATEER We're moving chess pieces all over the place, ... We're moving them so fast, it's hard to keep track...
JACK WOMACK Yeah, I lied and I shouldn’t have and it was lousy of me and I’m sorry. I never meant to hurt yo...
STACIA KANE It was like a three-level chess game.
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KELLY JONES I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art -- and much more. It cannot be commercial...
MARCEL DUCHAMP I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commerciali...
MARCEL DUCHAMP It's a chess match. You play the game.
FRANK CIGNETTI JR Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.
ALEXANDER ALEKHINE Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
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BORIS SPASSKY Why people do that in case it can be predicted like the table of chess, why people are liars and hyp...
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DAVID HOCKNEY But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I&...
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DAVID HYDE PIERCE Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.
ERIC BOGOSIAN Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never...
MAX EUWE In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
ISAAC ASIMOV In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate
ISAAC ASIMOV It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King.
TERRY PRATCHETT In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
YULIYA SNIGIR Life's too short for chess.
HENRY J. BYRON Life's to short for chess.
HENRY JAMES BYRON Life's too short for chess
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RALPH BUNCHE There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
RALPH BUNCHE We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dr...
RALPH BUNCHE Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
RALPH BUNCHE To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work ha...
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