To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires thinking.

Everyone wants to be wanted and if all people wait for someone else to invest in them, the world will be stuck in an eternal stalemate: nobody moves and nobody wins.

I pull on her tether all the time but it won’t sink in. I have a feeling I’m using too much magic. I can’t hold so many under my control and pull them in deep....

It’s an exciting sport to watch. It’s a chess match, that’s active.

Love is like the moment you’re about to win at chess, and then you realize you’re the other color and you’re actually about to lose.

The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father’s study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece...

A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician’s reputation.

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...

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

Playing against him is like a chess match.

Love is like a chess match, where the queen wins the game and the king just sort of stands around.

IF her life had taught her anything, it was that you never really knew what people had going on beneath the surface. People were shit. The only difference between them and animals was people felt...

So if you think that when you are better, it means that you can smash ahead and mate the guy, you are wrong, that is not what better means. What better means is that your...

The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem… I have come to the personal conclusion...

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white.

Football is like a chess match—a chess match where you can beat the shit out of your opponent.

No shame in it. Some of us needs an edge on things make us feel right, else we ain’t like feeling at all, aye?

Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I’d feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen.

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

The chemists who uphold dualism are far from being agreed among themselves; nevertheless, all of them in maintaining their opinion, rely upon the phenomena of chemical reactions. For a long time the uncertainty of this...

If I am a pawn in someone else’s chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being shoved at some rook. I’ll play my part, damn it, but I want...

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.

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...

The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she’s gone, it’s a whole different game.

You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you’ve closed for the day and flips the board.

I like the moment when I break a man’s ego

I could go out to the studio he had in L.A. and hang around with him. We’d play chess. I later learned that was a real privilege.

He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights.’White to play and mate in two moves.’Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother....

And perhaps it was precisely because she knew nothing at all about chess that chess for her was not simply a parlor game or a pleasant pastime, but a mysterious art equal to all the...

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

We think the game is a chess game you’re playing all the time,

Whoever called snooker ‘chess with balls’ was rude, but right.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.

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.

Like most conversations and most chess games, we all start off the same and we all end the same, with a brief moment of difference in between. Fertilization to fertilizer. Ashes to ashes. And we...

Football is a chess game. You always try to stay one move ahead.

But I find something compelling in the game’s choreography, the way one move implies the next. The kings are an apt metaphor for human beings: utterly constrained by the rules of the game, defenseless against...

The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you’re in charge of them. And it’s your ability to see into the future and the effects of the decisions...

You get conflicts all of the time. But you have to know how to play the chess game. We come with results, and we come with solutions.

She’d been feeling pleased with a couple of moves, had thought she was gaining the upper hand. But she’d been overconfident. She’d failed to notice his stealthy approach until he turned the tables on her...

How dreadful…to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.

The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about...

If u know, Chess is the game that teach u about defense not strike.Enjoy ur tempo and win the game!

When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He’ll Win the Whole Thing ‘Fore He Enters the Ring There’s...

A relationship is a game of chess.

When the end comes, I will meet it raging.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Living together/ is one move closer/ to living apart