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

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

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...

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

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

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

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?

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...

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

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.

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...

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.

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...

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

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.

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....

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.

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,

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...

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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

When the end comes, I will meet it raging.

A relationship is a game of chess.

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

Living together/ is one move closer/ to living apart

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

It is a game of chess with this city. We’ll have to see how it is going to play out. The city goes back and forth trying to figure out what programs to cut and...

They’ll be competing with companies like Computer Associates. This is the opening move in a larger chess game.

Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It’s about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the...

It was a chess match.

By the time the disease was through with him, he no longer knew how to move a chess piece or to put together a simple child’s model boat,

Bridge is much more sociable than chess. To play bridge you have to be two, you and your partner, at least. And you’re playing with lots of other people.

It was a little bit of a chess match.

The permutations and combinations are endless. It’s like a game of three-dimensional chess.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn’t like losing at all.

I’m not forcing you to do anything. You need to make your own damn decisions . And I’m not playing this game where we ignore reality and pretend to have a normal conversation for a...