Chess Endgame Quotes

Chess is mental torture.

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

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

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.

I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame.

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.

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

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

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.

Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?

I'm a pretty good chess player.

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

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

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.

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

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.

In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.

Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way.

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

Like MCs, each chess player has his own style: how he likes to open, when he likes to attack. Just like we face off with each other lyrically, we challenge each other's minds on the chessboard. Sharpen each other's swords.

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

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess

For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.

I love the chess game that I do on 'Suits.' I just love every bit of it and that I get to do it.