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I don't know if people know this but I am pretty good at chess. I was always on the chess team at school when I was younger. — Justin Bieber

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

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

You have good instincts,trust them. Thinking through every step is fine if you're playing chess, but this isn't chess. — Rick Yancey

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

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt. — Boris Spassky

My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration — Bobby Fischer

What we need are lots of girls who aren't as good as us, who'll treat us with the proper respect and reverance. — David Norwood

When I was eleven, I just got good. — Bobby Fischer

Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her. — J.K. Rowling

Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to. — 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

You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport. — Garry Kasparov

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

A good player is always lucky. — Jose Raul Capablanca

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game — Bobby Fischer

Chess is a great game. No matter how good one is, there is always somebody better. No matter how bad one is, there is always somebody worse. — Israel Albert Horowitz

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good. — Magnus Carlsen

I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person. — Magnus Carlsen

Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves. — Kenneth Rogoff

In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move. — Josh Waitzkin

When you're good at something, you should continue to do it. Too many players have stopped at a relatively young age ... — Jan Timman

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other. — Jose Raul Capablanca

When you see a good move, look for a better one — Emanuel Lasker

Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +- — Mark Dvoretsky

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess — Bobby Fischer

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events. — Benjamin Franklin

I'm a pretty good chess player. — Joel Kinnaman

Chess is a good mistress but a bad master. — Gerald Abrahams

A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position. — Bent Larsen

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I'm bad at math but good at chess, I beat the best guy on chess... so you make your own conclusions! — Deyth Banger

It is not enough to be a good player ... you must also play well — Siegbert Tarrasch

The only good Rook is a working Rook! — Samuel Reshevsky

Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost. — Yuri Razuvaev

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

Chess isn't one of my favorites, it takes a cool calculating hatred to play well, and I'm not good at that. — Lilith Saintcrow

A great chess player always has a very good memory. — Leonid Shamkovich

The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic. — Boris Gelfand

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa. — Henri Poincare

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