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

    Success   Play   People  
  • I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.

  • I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not a very good artist. But this was, like, one thing I could do. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)

    Art   Games   Museums  
  • Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

  • Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.

  • First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

    Success   Player   Games  
  • When you don't know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponent's mind. You may be sure that idea will be wrong

    Play   Ideas   Waiting  
  • We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.

    Play   Car   Desert  
    "Robot-To-Robot Chat Yields Curious Conversation". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 1, 2011.
  • I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

  • You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer

  • There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess

    Men   Yield   Class  
    Mortimer Collins, Frank Kerslake (1880). “Attic Salt, Or, Epigrammatic Sayings, Healthful, Humorous and Wise: In Prose and Verse, Collected from the Works of Mortimer Collins”
  • Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.

    Play   Boards   Chess  
    Alexander Alekhine (1955). “My best games of chess, 1924-1937”
  • I think I can safely conclude that there is not a lot to be said for playing chess while on Valium.

  • In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

  • Playing chess has many aspects that can be useful in everyday situations like planning, concentration and combinations. You learn to win but also to lose and to be creative.

  • I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of some sort.

    Coffee   Silly   Men  
  • Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money

    George Walker, Benjamin Franklin, William Stopford Kenny (1841). “The chess player: by George Walker; to which are added the three games played at one and the same time by Philidor; sixty openings, mates and situations, by W. S. Kenny, with remarks, anecdotes, &c. &c., and an explanation of the round chess board”, p.7
  • You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.

    Play   Politics   Chess  
  • It's important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally think too many coaching and training classes may take away a child's interest in the game itself. The essential thing to do is practise often and, in case of a doubt, to consult a trainer.

  • When you see a good move, look for a better one.

  • I won't play with you anymore. You have insulted my friend -when an opponent cursed himself for a blunder

    Play   Chess   Opponents  
  • The Indians and Chinese have become brilliant chess professionals. They get on a plane and play all over the world. This has led to dramatic pressure on incomes. Nowadays, the best chess player in Argentina can no longer make a living playing chess.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

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

    Funny   Humor   Black  
  • The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what the moves in the game are. But understanding the rules is just a trivial preliminary on the long route from being a novice to being a grand master. So even if we understand all the laws of physics, then exploring their consequences in the everyday world where complex structures can exist is a far more daunting task, and that's an inexhaustible one I'm sure.

    Moving   Science   Law  
  • Firstly, there no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with Scandinavians. Third, he doesn't exist either.

    Death   Horse   White  
  • 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

  • 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.

    Mother   Father   Games  
  • Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved.

    Autumn   Dark   Winter  
    Bai Juyi, “On The Lake (1)”
  • The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.

    "Russia Is Not a Democracy". Interview with Uwe Klussmann and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. March 15, 2007.
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