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It can't be a great cosmic game of chess, it has to be just very complicated Solitaire. — Terry Pratchett

The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [ ... ] Today's game was provided by Garry. — Magnus Carlsen

Remy you're my king." I hug him hard. "There's no chess game for me without you. — Katy Evans

Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard — Reuben Fine

First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game — Siegbert Tarrasch

The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game. — Boris Spassky

If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around. — William McDonough

Pawns: they are the soul of this game, they alone form the attack and defense — Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

It might have begun a bit like a chess game, but it had taken on its own momentum, and owned both of them. — Julie Anne Long

The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. — Richard Reti

Life, is a chess game you win or loose, but just keep playing. — Auliq Ice

Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929. — Mikhail Botvinnik

How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge. — Warren Buffett

There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely. That's what I don't like. — Bobby Fischer

I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game. — Albert Einstein

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. — Jenny Frost

No one ever won a game by resigning. — Savielly Tartakower

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible. — Dave Barry

It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

How dreadful ... to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules. — Caroline Stevermer

Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess. — Garry Kasparov

The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed according to the sacrifices it contains. — Rudolf Spielmann

It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men — Savielly Tartakower

So far a lot of battles I have won, so far I have reached the game with the chess puzzles 105 level out of 350. — Deyth Banger

You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances — Bobby Fischer

Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit. — Voltaire

All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis. — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent — Bobby Fischer

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later. — Al Leiter

Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective. — Crystal Woods

Chess is and will always be a game of chance. — Jan Hein Donner

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world. — Garry Kasparov

Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all. — Mikhail Chigorin

Chess is a fathead and feudal game. — Georges Perec

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win. — Jose Raul Capablanca

What is the object of playing a gambit opening? ... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game — Siegbert Tarrasch

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game. — Paolo Bacigalupi

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine — Mikhail Tal

I'm the Pawn of chess game, whose aim is not to protect the King only but to become the Conqueror. — Samar Sudha

The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly — Irving Chernev

That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some. — Richard Bach

We move like the chess game, first the white... then the black... the moves are too fast so far it's difficult to see it. But it's logical, isn't it? — Deyth Banger

Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated. — Levon Aronian

Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game — Siegbert Tarrasch

Chess isn't a game of speed, it is a game of speech through actions — Matt Selman

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind. — Bobby Fischer

The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game — Albert Einstein

Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment. — V.E Schwab

Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares — Miguel Najdorf

Sometimes a Pawn is enough to change the whole game and those who ignore the importance of it, are liable to lose their Queen. — Sandeep Sharma

A relationship is a game of chess. — Sophie Kinsella

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways. — Vladimir Kramnik

But a man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end of it. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved. — Soren Kierkegaard

Chess is not a game, but a disease. — Henry Campbell-Bannerman

In their figurative game of chess, Anthony Rawlings had Claire in check. Every move she made, he countered. — Aleatha Romig

Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration — Cecil Purdy

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. — Isaac Asimov

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory. — Max Euwe

19.Rxc7N. There comes the novetly! [sic] Actually, the impression I had is that both players had more or less analyzed the rest of the game. — Romain Edouard

All chess masters can play one game blindfolded. — George Koltanowski

To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game — Savielly Tartakower

That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one — Bobby Fischer

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents. — Alexander Alekhine

Chess is an easy game! — Deyth Banger

A plan is made for a few moves only, not for the whole game. — Reuben Fine

The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do — Gerald Abrahams

Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening. — Henry A. Kissinger

Cyber security like a game of chess, its main challenge not to win, but never surrender. — D.K.

For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime. — Eduard Gufeld

When Marx got into a difficult position he would get angry and losing a game would cause him to fly into a rage. — Wilhelm Liebknecht

Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam. — Bobby Fischer

I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it. — Bobby Fischer

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art. — Napoleon Bonaparte

No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game. — Chuck D

When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!' — Mikhail Tal

To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence. — Frederick Lenz

Chess is eminently and emphatically the philospher's game. — Paul Morphy

Every man needs a women, when his life in a trouble. just like a game of chess, queen protect the king — Anuj Kr. Thakur

In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead — Isaac Kashdan

The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette. — Garry Kasparov

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport. — Garry Kasparov

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. — Bobby Fischer

Everything I was doing was like this chess game - full of second guesses, indecision, waiting. — Heather Demetrios

In chess puzzles and tactics you see moves which in game is difficult to see mainly because of time and more often from the fast moves... — Deyth Banger

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves — Bobby Fischer

A game is always won through a mistake. — Savielly Tartakower

Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win. — Demian Maia

Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game. — David Bronstein

There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end. — Garry Kasparov

You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think. — Tom Robbins

When she moves a chess piece on the board, it isn't so she can win; it's to move the game forward. She's just keeping us all moving forward. — Danielle Stewart

Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements. — Jose Raul Capablanca

The placing of the center pawns determines the 'topography' of a game of chess. — Alexander Kotov

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If I win a tournament, I win it by myself. I do the playing. Nobody helps me — Bobby Fischer

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward. — Amar Bose

And so the argument was begun, progressing more in the silences than in the speeches, like a chess game played by mail. — Stephen King

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us. — Howard Staunton

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game. — Wilhelm Steinitz