Chess Quotes - Page 40

• I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Sports, Games, Accepted

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• I like the little chess match of how people move through space. I'm not comparing myself to Michelangelo with this analogy, but he said when he sculpts it's like finding the sculpture within. It feels that way when you are with actors, too. There's a natural way to do this with a natural language that flows and feels like real people talking. And you've just got to find it. So I enjoy that part of the process.

  Timothy Miller

  Real, Moving, Space

  Source: screenrant.com

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• During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player
  extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His
  favorite time of day is half past six in the evening, when he meets Mrs. Marsden's train at the
  station, as the latter returns from her day in London. On Sunday afternoons, rain or shine,
  Professor and Mrs. Marsden take a walk along The Backs, and treasure growing old
  together.

  Sherry Thomas

  Rain, Sunday, Player

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• Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals.

  Perry DeAngelis

  Animal, Play, Together

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• If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.

  Mark Millar

  Play, Organization, Want

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• When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

  Michael Birch

  Kids, Exercise, Thinking

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• The Indians and Chinese have become brilliant chess professionals. They get on a plane and play all over the world. This has led to dramatic pressure on incomes. Nowadays, the best chess player in Argentina can no longer make a living playing chess.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Player, Chinese, Argentina

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end.

  Garry Kasparov

  Games, Ends, Fixed

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Bridges, Intellectual

  Source: time.com

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• Chess computers do not sweat during time pressure and commit costly blunders. Furthermore, the strength of these programs (over and above their faultless recall processes) lies in their capacity to make relatively superficial tactical decisions with incredible speed. Positional values, long-range strategy, aesthetic judgment, and political astuteness remain staples of human performance, man vs. machine results in the foreseeable future to the contrary not withstanding.

  Ira Carmen

  Lying, Men, Sweat

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• Think of golf as chess. You have to think two or three moves ahead every time you hit the ball. Over every shot, you should be thinking, 'Where do I need to put this ball in order to make my next shot as easy as possible.

  Gary McCord

  Moving, Golf, Thinking

  Gary McCord (2011). “Golf For Dummies”, p.282, John Wiley & Sons

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• Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst.

  Norbert Wiener

  Fields, Moments, Mathematics

  Norbert Wiener (1953). “Ex-prodigy: My Childhood and Youth”

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• The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Player, Different, Use

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• Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.

  Gabe Polsky

  Art, Play, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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• A defeatist spirit must inevitably lead to disaster.

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

  Spirit, Losing, Disaster

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• Chess960 is healthy and good for your chess. If you get into it and not just move the pieces to achieve known positions it really improves your chess vision.

  Levon Aronian

  Moving, Healthy, Vision

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• Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.

  Budd Schulberg

  Sports, Thinking, Games

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• Football is like chess, only without the dice.

  Lukas Podolski

  Football, Dice

  "German Football's Greatest Sayings" by David Gordon Smith, www.spiegel.de. June 10, 2008.

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• Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

  Trevanian

  Philosophy, Western, Accounting

  Trevanian (2005). “Shibumi: A Novel”, p.165, Broadway Books

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• You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all.

  Mark Lawrence

  Queens, Winning, Men

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.20, Penguin

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• In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

  Yuliya Snigir

  Cucumbers, Should

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• Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.

  Eloisa James

  Games, Making Love, World

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• Realize that the social media success equation isn't big moves on the chess board, it's little moves made every day that eventually add up to a major shift.

  Jay Baer

  Moving, Media, Littles

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• I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them.

  Emo Philips

  Men, Play, Parks

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• Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.

  Maile Meloy

  Knights, Way, Diabetes

  Maile Meloy (2010). “Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It”, p.70, Canongate Books

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