Joseph Heller Quotes

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

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.

Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play, assuming the rules and regulations allow them to play serious chess. But it will likely be a long time before anyone spends 20 consecutive years as number, one as I did.

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

Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

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 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.

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

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.

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.'

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

Chess is mental torture.

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

My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.

Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.

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 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.

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.

I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me.

Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.

The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [...] Today's game was provided by Garry.