In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
Yuliya Snigir
CoolYouChessShouldCucumber
Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.
Magnus Carlsen
TalentFindKnowChessSatisfied
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
GoodGreatChessPrettyBooksRead
Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov
ChessMentalTorture
I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.
Dallas Roberts
SchoolHigh SchoolTryingChessHigh
I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.
Anatoly Karpov
ChildrenI AmThinkingChessMore
Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
Max Euwe
AchievementVictoryGameChessMain
I'm used to litigating against incredibly competent, high-quality lawyers that are very good chess players.
Michael Avenatti
GoodLawyersChessUsedAgainst
I believe there is something going on in a conscious being, which includes many animals, as well as ourselves, that is not a computational activity. And to be conscious at all is not a quality that a computer as such will ever possess - no matter how complicated, no matter how well it plays chess or any of these things.
Roger Penrose
QualityBelieveComplicatedChess
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.
Douglass North
JobYoungWashingtonChessBrilliant
Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.
Clive James
ChessRudeBallsRightWhoever
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
Boris Spassky
RichChessSovietSoviet UnionUnion
We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.
Arnon Goldfinger
YouthChessLivedWhereBoardMost
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
MistakesRedPeopleThinkYouChess
If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.
Lennox Lewis
MeMediaKnowChessAnglePlayed
Life's to short for chess.
Henry James Byron
LifeShortChess
Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.
Charles Barkley
PeopleStupidGameKnowChessPoor
A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.
Alexandra Kosteniuk
WomanManChessKindWhyDifficult
Chess is not for timid souls.
Wilhelm Steinitz
ChessSoulsTimid
I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.
Vladimir Kramnik
CharacterPersonalityI AmChessWay
Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it.
Sarah West
WorkThinkYouEnemyChessMilitary
I keep track of my blog stats, Facebook subs, my Amazon rank, Twitter followers, Facebook likes per posts, my chess ranking. I get stressed when they all don't go up.
James Altucher
GoChessUpFollowersStressedRank
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
Viktor Korchnoi
LostChessHumanNobilityFlawWon
I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
LosingLoseChessUpsetMoreAlways
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