Quotations
Names:
Leonard Chess
Quotes:
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.
View quotes by Eric Sykes
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
View quotes by Ralph Charell
Chess is a game of war and strategy, and a great chess player would make a great intelligence officer.
View quotes by Bobby Fischer
At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realised many of my competitors were memorising the best moves and I was unwilling to do this. [These chess players will do anything to win won't they, it's a cut throat business!]
View quotes by John Harsanyi
Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.
View quotes by Dave Barry
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
View quotes by Emo Philips
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
View quotes by Anatol Rapoport
Women use their sexuality to promote all kinds of sports, so why not chess.
View quotes by Maria Manakova
Probably the chess game in Star Wars because it was funny and just a great moment of that particular movie [Fave moment in Star Wars]
View quotes by Peter Mayhew
At lunchtime the place is jumping, while at night the dining rooms could have been rented out for chess tournaments.
View quotes by Bryan Miller
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.
View quotes by Stanley Kubrick
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
View quotes by Raymond Chandler
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
View quotes by Richard Dawkins
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
View quotes by Marcel Duchamp
Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
View quotes by Nigel Short
Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
View quotes by Lenin
It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.
View quotes by A A Milne
Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.
View quotes by Clive James
Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
View quotes by Gary Kasparov
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
View quotes by Thomas Huxley
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