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  • Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess. -- Felix Frankfurter
  • Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory. -- Max Euwe
  • 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
  • I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore. -- Garry Kasparov
  • When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity. -- Vladimir Kramnik
  • Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences. -- Craig Brown
  • You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life. -- Dorothy Dunnett
  • A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together. -- Madeleine Albright
  • My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics. -- Viswanathan Anand
  • Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game. -- Wilhelm Steinitz
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head. -- Magnus Carlsen
  • 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
  • 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
  • Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them. -- Larry Fitzgerald
  • But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here. -- Dorothy Dunnett
  • Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course, chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have a very strong nervous system, and then you must be well prepared; you must be able to work a lot. -- Anatoly Karpov
  • I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame. -- Steve Carell
  • A relationship is a game of chess. -- Sophie Kinsella
  • I play my enemies like a game of chess -- Lauryn Hill
  • Weaknesses of character are normally shown in a game of chess. -- Garry Kasparov
  • All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis. -- Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
  • Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated. -- Karl Kraus
  • The placing of the center pawns determines the 'topography' of a game of chess. -- Alexander Kotov
  • An hour's history of two minds is well told in a game of chess. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
  • Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...) -- Martin Amis
  • Wilhelm Steinitz was the first man to appreciate the inherent logic behind the game of chess. -- William Hartston
  • A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves. -- David Bronstein
  • The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed according to the sacrifices it contains. -- Rudolf Spielmann
  • In their figurative game of chess, Anthony Rawlings had Claire in check. Every move she made, he countered. -- Aleatha Romig
  • Life is like playing the game of chess against yourself, to win, you must beat the blacks of you. -- Hassaan Ali
  • The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us. -- Howard Staunton
  • Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective. -- Crystal Woods
  • 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
  • The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several moves ahead to set up your opponent. -- Brad Lidge
  • Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome. -- Jerry Seinfeld
  • Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen. -- John Rhys-Davies
  • A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality. -- Marcel Duchamp
  • All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess. -- Marcel Duchamp
  • I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards. -- Graydon Carter
  • Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it. -- Susanna Kearsley
  • If we are to elevate the game of chess to a popular sport, grandmasters must become gladiators, otherwise the game will languish on the periphery, a voice crying in the wilderness, condemned to live and die on a cold arctic shore. -- Michael Basman
  • Life is like a game of chess.To win you have to make a move.Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHTand knowledge, and by learning the lessons that areacculated along the way.We become each and every piece within the game called life! -- Allan Rufus
  • The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head--no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it. -- Herman Melville
  • Malina looked incredulous. "Are you anything more than a Druid?" "Of course I am. I own this shop and I play a mean game of chess, and I've been told that I'm a frakkin' Cylon." "What's a frakkin' Cylon?" "I don't know, but it sounds really scary when you say it with a Polish Accent. -- Kevin Hearne
  • If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
  • The Possibilities in racing tactics are almost unlimited, as in a game of chess, for every move there is a counter, for every attack there is a defense.... The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage. Above all, he must have a will to win. -- Franz Stampfl
  • As a journalist, I cannot help imagining with excitement a new era with a face-off between Hedi Slimane at YSL and Raf Simons at Dior - a magnificent battle of style and wills to echo the Armani/Versace, Gucci/Prada or even Chanel/Schiaparelli face-offs of earlier years. But I remind myself that this is not a game of chess. -- Suzy Menkes
  • The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game. -- Boris Spassky
  • 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
  • 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
  • Crossword puzzles, Sudoku... I'm good at all those things. It's not daily, but I'll do stuff on the airplane. I love playing chess. It's my favorite game. -- Larry Fitzgerald
  • Chess is a game of bad moves. -- Andrew Soltis
  • Chess is a fathead and feudal game. -- Georges Perec
  • Most innovative little board game since Chess. -- Michael A. Stackpole
  • Chess is eminently and emphatically the philospher's game. -- Paul Morphy
  • All chess masters can play one game blindfolded. -- George Koltanowski
  • Chess is not a game, but a disease. -- Henry Campbell-Bannerman
  • Chess is the only game greater than its players. -- Tim Rice
  • In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. -- Isaac Asimov
  • Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory. -- Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
  • Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam. -- Bobby Fischer
  • Chess is and will always be a game of chance. -- Jan Hein Donner
  • Chess is life and every game is like a new life. -- Eduard Gufeld
  • Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit. -- Voltaire
  • The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers. -- Bob Costas
  • Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance. -- Richard Reti
  • You can only get good at Chess if you love the game -- Bobby Fischer
  • Chess isn't a game of speed, it is a game of speech through actions -- Matt Selman
  • I stopped taking notes on my Palm Pilot and started playing the little chess game. -- Roger Ebert
  • Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess. -- Adrian Rogers
  • No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game. -- Chuck D
  • There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end. -- Garry Kasparov
  • Remy you're my king." I hug him hard. "There's no chess game for me without you. -- Katy Evans
  • If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around. -- William McDonough
  • Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways. -- Vladimir Kramnik
  • Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game -- Nigel Short
  • My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible -- Dave Barry
  • My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible. -- Dave Barry
  • The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game. -- Boris Spassky
  • Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Chess is a time game, it's a game of patience. That pretty much defines how I run the ball. -- Priest Holmes
  • Life is like playing the game of Chess against yourself, to win you must beat the blacks of you. -- Hassaan Ali
  • To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening. -- Henry A. Kissinger
  • Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. -- Zicheng Hong
  • Love is like a chess match, where the queen wins the game and the king just sort of stands around. -- Jarod Kintz
  • Chess reflects the real world in miniature. Endeavor, struggle, success, and defeat - they are part of each game ever played. -- Bruce Pandolfini
  • Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
  • Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game. -- David Bronstein
  • Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy. -- Luke McShane
  • Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game. -- Wilhelm Steinitz
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way. -- Magnus Carlsen
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently -- Mark Twain
  • 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
  • To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • 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
  • In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this. -- Vladimir Kramnik
  • 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
  • Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself. -- Christopher Bollen
  • Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the universe. -- Austin Grossman
  • 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
  • This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled by modern Lombards pensive chess. -- Isaac Asimov
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess. -- Edgar Allan Poe
  • Much time and money has gone into computer chess programs, and so far, no one's figured out how to crack the game, which I think speaks to chess's complexity. -- Wells Tower
  • The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'. -- Emanuel Lasker
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