Nigel Short Quotes

Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.

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

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

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.

Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.

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

Chess is not dominoes

Chess is one long regret.

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.

Chess will always be the master of us all.

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

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

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

Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.

Chess is mental torture.

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

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.

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

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.