Chess Moves Quotes

Chess is mental torture.

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.

I didn't know so well chess theory, the theory of chess openings. And so, of course I knew the theory, but not on the level of the best players, so this was my... this was always my weakness.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

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.

The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.

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

I could think six shots ahead. It's no different to playing chess.

I see myself used in terms of reading mismatches. If it's small, go inside. If it's big, come outside. And if it's in between, then work him, make him think you're going outside, go back inside. Just play chess.

The Bishop and Knight, in contradistinction to the Queen and Rook, are called Minor Pieces.

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

Why, then, do you think the white player might have done it?" Reynie considered. He imagined himself moving out his knight only to bring it right back to where it started. Why would he ever do such a thing? At last he said,"Perhaps because he doubted himself.

In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.

I played on a 10'x10' chessboard at a hotel in Miami. The pieces were heavy, and I got tired just making a move. Not cool with that.

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

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

Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.

There is technology where you can watch the match live online and also on TV. If people understood the game, I'm sure we would have a lot of chess fans by now.

Councilors of state sit plotting their high chess-game whereof the pawns are men.

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.

In both games, you have to think fast. In chess you tend to know all the patterns already, just like in football.

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

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.

Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.

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.