Chess Quotes - Page 20

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

Inexperienced players have a fear of this piece, which seems to them enigmatic, mysterious, and astonishing in its power. We must admit that it has remarkable characteristics which compel respect and occasionally surprise the most wary players.

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

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

There just isn't enough televised Chess

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

Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?

On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.

Let's play. I'm willing to play anywhere.

When I was eleven, I just got good.

I don't know what I am going to play, so how can he know what I am going to play!

As with Steinitz, Fischer's genius has often been concealed by controversies away from the board. Like Lasker, Fischer has raised chess to new financial heights despite frequent retreats from serious play. And, like Capablanca, Fischer is recognized by millions of non-players and has won the game many new enthusiasts.

My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to work independently.

The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling.

Time trouble is blunder time.

Never play for the win, never play for the draw, just play chess!

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

Botvinnik was a killer in chess.

I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of chess and other events can seem quite unimportant in comparison with a catastrophe on the chessboard.

I would never suggest to anyone that they drop school for chess. First of all even if you can make it in chess, your social skills need to be developed there.

Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.

Chess is most certainly not my life.

I think I can safely conclude that there is not a lot to be said for playing chess while on Valium.

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.