Joel Kinnaman Quotes

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

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

If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all.

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

You can't win the chess match if you don't have enough pieces.

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

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

Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

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

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.

When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.

Barak Obama is a chess player in a town full of checkers players.

When you first start playing, that's your aim obviously, to win the world title.

For the moment, I am more focused on classical chess rather than rapid and blitz, as I am hoping to make my move in the classical World championship cycle.

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

Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game

I don't know if people know this but I am pretty good at chess. I was always on the chess team at school when I was younger.

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

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.

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

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

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

Chess is mental torture.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.