John Masefield Quotes

We are studying the opponent all the time and it is maybe about chess and finding the right move at the right moment and that makes this so interesting.

The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish.

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.

I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings.

Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)

Chess is one long regret.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper's bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father's life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born.

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

I'm a pretty good chess player.

Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns.

For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.

I love the chess game that I do on 'Suits.' I just love every bit of it and that I get to do it.

With chess it was almost this palpable electricity that I felt. You're totally in control of your own fate. There's no luck factor. It's you and the pieces.