Dorothy Dunnett Quotes

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

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.

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

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

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

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

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

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

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.

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.

Chess is life.

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.

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

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

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

War strategy is always unique. It is like a chess game. The pieces are always the same but each game is unique

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.

It's not 64 squares. It's a battlefield. There's no luck, there's no dice. It's just you and your opponent.

I find the game mentally challenging and really enjoy the chess match that occurs every week between the offense and the opposing defense.

I think death is the aesthetic part of chess, seeing your opponent's army fall. Producing a sacrifice in order to mate is the aesthetic part of it. It's a beautiful, bloodless war.

Chess is a game of stimulation.

Chess is not dominoes

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

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.