Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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

Chess will always be the master of us all.

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

Chess is not dominoes

Chess is a matter of vanity.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

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 contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.

Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

Chess is one long regret.

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

The game of chess. Supposedly men made it up, and it's about war and men and the ravages and the bravery and the genius of commanding and moving pieces and ... No. It's marriage. The Queen moves anywhere she wants.

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

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

Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.

I'm a pretty good chess player.

Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate!

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

I grew up with 'Chess' and the music from the show.

I play a lot of chess, just to a bog-average level. But I find it stimulates your mind with all the combinations of different moves.

The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me.

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance