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In chess it is more important to frustrate your opponent's strategy than to be obsessed with your own.
Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'
Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.
'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.
In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.
No, playing online is an entirely different experience and classical chess events never happen online.
Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning.
The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.
You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.
For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.
I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.
I think chess players are not always what you think them to be. Or maybe it's our job to appear serious.
Yes, I think I have some good knowledge of India. I have lots of Indian friends in the chess fraternity.
It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately.
I do hope in Ireland children in schools can experience the richness of chess and it's positive effects.
I have to constantly work on my reflexes and hand-eye coordination. I do a lot of puzzles. I play chess.
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.
In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master.
Because of the Internet, chess is not about your nationality or your background. Anyone can get good now.
Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder
When everything on the board is clear it can be so difficult to conceal your thoughts from your opponent.
I thought I was playing the world champion, not some 27-eyed monster who sees everything in all positions.
I have frequently stated that I regard chess as an art form, where creativity prevails over other factors.
Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.
I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.
I'm used to litigating against incredibly competent, high-quality lawyers that are very good chess players.
Chess is a great training ground for poker players because it's a math-based game, much like backgammon is.
Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression.
The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.
I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.
Marriage is like a chess match is initiated and the board expands over time until it takes up all of a life.
Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate!
By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion
I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.
I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.
There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.
Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it
I want to show how rich chess is and what kind of history it has, through culture, literature, and education.
When you watch chess, you don't see the four hours that the player spends preparing for a match ahead of time.
I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.
It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.