135 Chess Quotes for You to Enjoy

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. Emo Philips

Me Kick Once Beat Computer Match Boxing Chess

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days. Anna Kendrick

Good Game Man People Good Man Dinner Gentleman Own Doors Believe Every Think Other Rules Inside About Someone Above Instinct Stuff Opening Days Comfort Chess Holds Who Buying

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

You Too Late Fate Too Late Out Find Throw He Along Most Queens Chess Been Dice Gods Playing Two Plays

Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and then focus on the best choice of the remaining lot. That's the way expertise works in other fields, too: Wise practitioners recognize familiar patterns and put their creativity, improvisation, and skill toward the marginal cases. John Dickerson

Best Wise Creativity Focus Too Other Way Recognize Possible Cases Percent Remaining Could Put Toward Know Discard Make Masters How Chess Lot Familiar Improvisation Moves Expertise Patterns Fields Then Skill Choice Evaluate Works Marginal

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment. Garry Kasparov

You Problem Responsibility Rules Logic Solve Uncertain Take Environment Concentrate How Chess Improve Your Teaches Actions Helps Play

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

Time Game Together People Sit Strategy International Relations Think Thinking Relations Out More Taking Between Like Chess Balls Lot Bunch Quietly Where Moves Billiards International

Many leaders are tempted to lead like a chess master, striving to control every move, when they should be leading like gardeners, creating and maintaining a viable ecosystem in which the organization operates. Stanley A. McChrystal

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas. Stanley Kubrick

Good You Heart Better Sit Think Other Trembles Must About Pick Idea Ideas Piece Leaps Calmly Chess Hand Up Move Whether Board Really Your Teaches Suddenly Good Idea

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage. Steve Sabol

Inspirational Music Game Theatre Big Field Strategy Our Battleground Clarify Footage Football Part Football Field Like Look Piece Looks Glorify Narration Ballet Chess End Big Movie Screen Movie In The End Create Amplify Playground

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. Richard Dawkins

Needs Humanity World Lesson Humility Rather Winning Computer Computer Program Computers Look Chess Personally Forward Championship Program

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

You Game Queen Win Sometimes King Sacrifice Rather Knight Like Pieces Withdraw Chess Spying Than Your

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

Me Ego Take Like Alter Chess Apart Them Hard

All I want to do, ever, is play chess. Bobby Fischer

Chess Want Ever Play

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right. Clive James

Rude Chess Balls Whoever Right

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

Game Problem Possible Soon Pieces Chess End Wanted

Chess is mental torture. Garry Kasparov

Torture Mental Chess

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

You Game Marriage Water Will Made Outcome Except Like Pieces Make Smoke Chess Effect Any Move Board Flowing

The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure. Joshua Waitzkin

Truth Me Learning Truth Is Training Challenge Pressure Approach Machines Gifted Ability Martial Martial Arts Rise Mental More Both Throughout Rivals Knew Were Chess Than Often Arts Either Bodies Naturally Believed Careers

Boxing is like chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalise on it. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it's not about aggression. Avoiding getting knocked out is tactical. Nicola Adams

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