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If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.
I play football like chess. You have to think a lot and anticipate what could happen after you make your move.
I think for me the main goal that I have, or at least what I really aspire to, is to raise the level of chess.
What we need are lots of girls who aren't as good as us, who'll treat us with the proper respect and reverance.
The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.
I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.
But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one.
I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.
Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.
In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move.
Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.
I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.
Las Vegas is a beautiful place. I like it more and more and plan to be here often. It's a great place for chess.
When Marx got into a difficult position he would get angry and losing a game would cause him to fly into a rage.
During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.
I don't think the computer will win the Booker, but no-one ever expected a computer to beat a chess grandmaster.
... a lively imagination can exercise itself most fully and creatively in conjuring up magnificent combinations.
My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.
Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
Jack White is an extraordinary person because he's like a three-dimensional chess player. He thinks so far ahead.
Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.
In both games, you have to think fast. In chess you tend to know all the patterns already, just like in football.
Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.
The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.
I play chess with the computer when I feel dull in my mind and after two games - 'out or win', I feel sharp again.
The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc.
You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
Football and chess can seem like sporting polar opposites, but there are so many similarities with the modern game.
A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.
Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.
Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.
Al Sharpton is not important. He's nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game.
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.
When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age.
We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player.
Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.
Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
In chess, everyone's accepted. That's what's great about it. You can be a little bit different. You can be an oddball.
The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.
Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.
The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.
Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.
Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess
The power of hanging Pawns is based precisely in their Mobility, in their Ability to create acute situations instantly.
Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board