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Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move. — Tony Robbins

Regardless of Bobby's recent hate-filled rantings, which I abhor, he is nonetheless one of the greatest chessplayers of all time. — Frank Brady

I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant. — Magnus Carlsen

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player. — Max Euwe

It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter. — Garry Kasparov

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

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. — Anatoly Karpov

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess. — Eric Bogosian

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common. — Magnus Carlsen

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

It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine. — Bobby Fischer

Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks. — Jennifer Shahade

Ralph ... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player. — William Golding

Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere. — Edmar Mednis

Zugzwang. It's when you have no good moves. But you still have to move. — Michael Chabon

I got arrested for playing chess in the street. I said, it's because I'm black, isn't it. — Milton Jones

I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them. — Emo Philips

A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover. — Savielly Tartakower

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

There's no one alive I can't beat. — Bobby Fischer

Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality. — David Bronstein

The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature — Stanley Ellin

One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent — Siegbert Tarrasch

They found records and video-cassettes at their place, a deck of cards, a chess set. In other words, everything that's banned. — Marjane Satrapi

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

Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns — Siegbert Tarrasch

There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning. — Maurice Ashley

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type. — Michelle Rodriguez

Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces. — Mal Peet

I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik. — Garry Kasparov

Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego. — Bobby Fischer

Life's too short for chess. — Henry James Byron

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it. — Bobby Fischer

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop. — C.S. Lewis

When you play chess alone it's always your move. — Charles Simic

Wouldn't you rather play chess, Ma'am? ... It's less destructive of clothes. — Rowena Cherry

I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all. — Bobby Fischer

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year ... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame. — Lubomir Kavalek

The world championship is a disputed title. You've got a situation like boxing. Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified. — Yasser Seirawan

I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov. — Lou Gerstner

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

Chess is not relaxing; it's stressful even if you win. — Jennifer Shahade

Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess. — Mikhail Tal

Today, some chess games can't go in 40 minutes. One game not every time can finish fast, sometimes it's difficult to win and the ways are odd. — Deyth Banger

An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess. — Jose Raul Capablanca

In life, as in chess, it is always better to analyze one's motives and intentions. — Vladimir Nabokov

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess. — Lennox Lewis

Everything that Marvel does, it's a chess move. Nothing is by accident. — Chris Evans

After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game — Howard Staunton

You must not have played chess in a while. The king is the weakest piece in the game." He gave Justin a level look. "The queen's the strongest. — Richelle Mead

I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically. — Bobby Fischer

Terrible's eyes narrowed; he gave Chess the kind of look most people reserved for ax murderers. Ax murderers who killed children. And kittens. — Stacia Kane

Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know. — Tom Cruise

Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts. — Eloisa James

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

Stay calm. It's like chess. Move and countermove. — Rick Yancey

Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess. — Adrian Rogers

Most of the gods throw dice but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out until too late that he's been using two queens all along. Fate wins. — Terry Pratchett

Chess is a time game, it's a game of patience. That pretty much defines how I run the ball. — Priest Holmes

It was going to be our job to annoy someone?"
"I know - it's a dream come true! — Joel N. Ross

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess — Siegbert Tarrasch

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along. — Terry Pratchett

It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old. — Alison Gopnik

There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar. — Garry Kasparov

In chess it is more important to frustrate your opponent's strategy than to be obsessed with your own. — Larry Evans

I'm playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers, that's why I always lose — Josh Stern

I like the moment when I break a man's ego — Bobby Fischer

Before Geller we did not understand the King's Indian Defence. — Mikhail Botvinnik

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

You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know. — Bobby Fischer

Life's to short for chess. — Henry James Byron

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting. — Boris Spassky

When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at. — Dominic Lawson

Did Cap'n Vidious leave that? He is such a cuddlebunny."
"Yeah," I said, "that's exactly how I'd describe him. — Joel N. Ross

Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear. — Yasser Seirawan

The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix. — Vasily Smyslov

The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict. — Max Euwe

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

The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession — Mikhail Botvinnik

That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices! — J.K. Rowling

We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature — Rudolf Spielmann

Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess. — Woody Allen

Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue. — Richard Reti

It is difficult to play against Einstein's theory -on his first loss to Fischer — Mikhail Tal

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

Let's play. I'm willing to play anywhere. — Bobby Fischer

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. — Anatoly Karpov

The battle for the ultimate truth will never be won. And that's why chess is so fascinating. — Hans Kmoch

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

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

In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed. — Garry Kasparov

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it. — Al Leiter

It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King. — Terry Pratchett

The day Chess Pargeter looks t' engage himself with any woman's situation'll be a cold one in the Hot Place for sure — Gemma Files

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

If you were to say a witch's chess set instead of a witch's family, there would be some truth in that. Perhaps this is true of other families as well. — Kelly Link

Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite. — Yuri Razuvaev

Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess — Frank Brady

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess. — Garry Kasparov

Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences. — Alexey Suetin