Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.
Chess is a sad waste of brains.
Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have been around during the fervor of the match in Reykjavik and the rise of Bobby Fischer, so those two things conspired to pique my interest.
My mother is Russian and father Nepalese, so we always had a chess board at home. Chess is part of the culture in both Russia and Nepal.
Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
Business is the systematic playing of games.
Which do I prefer? Sex or chess? It depends on the position.
I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.
The game of chess. Supposedly men made it up, and it's about war and men and the ravages and the bravery and the genius of commanding and moving pieces and ... No. It's marriage. The Queen moves anywhere she wants.
Las Vegas is a beautiful place. I like it more and more and plan to be here often. It's a great place for chess.
In the barber shop you start playing checkers, and eventually you want to learn how to play chess. The pieces look a little more interesting. You're doing more things. I'm pretty good at it.
The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world
Golf and snooker are similar. They are ball games that you don't have to be super fit for. It's not like boxing or football when, at 35, you are on your way home.
A game is defined by the players' strategy domains and payoff functions.
Arimaa's a better game than I thought. It follows a fairly sound approach to making the game difficult for computers.
I read every country's perspective on an issue. I also play many games like Bridge, Scrabble and Sudoku online.
I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.
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.
I prefer games with many goals.
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink.
