Howard Staunton Quotes

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

When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn.

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

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

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

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

Chess is a game of stimulation.

Chess is not dominoes

The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.

For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King.

Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.

We were like bishops of opposite color.

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality.

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.

Chess is mental torture.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

For 'Inhuman,' it's a 'chess game' series. You have a lot of pieces moving different ways at once, and it's about what they do on their own and what happens when they collide into one another. It's about long-range planning, new character creation, and trying to really build things.

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

When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

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

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