Chess Quotes

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Emo Philips

Once, Boxing, Computer

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.
Kobe Bryant

Young, Playing, Guys

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
Woody Allen

Team, Failed, Height

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

Game, Cannot, Says

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Richard Dawkins

Forward, Winning, Humanity

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.
Anna Kendrick

Good, Someone, Game

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.
Madeleine Albright

Time, Game, Thinking

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
Stanley Kubrick

Good, Heart, Idea

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
Terry Pratchett

Two, Find, Playing

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.
Vladimir Kramnik

Beauty, Game, Everything

It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.
Jimmy Smits

End, Game, Hard

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
Jerry Seinfeld

Marriage, Game, Made

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

End, Game, Problem

Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.
Daniel Craig

Movies, Sexy, Game

I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
Garry Kasparov

Political, Country, Learned

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
David Hockney

Mind, Rather, Playing

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Game, Mean, Before

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov

Play, Problem, Rules

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.
Marilyn vos Savant

Time, Learning, Two

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

Another, Movement, Eating

I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.
Emma Watson

Film, Taken, Took

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler

Human, Find, Outside

I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.
Dennis Miller

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
Nicolas Chamfort

Kindness, Heart, Head

I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.
David Bailey

Father, Children, Teach

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.
Marcel Duchamp

Beauty, Art, Cannot

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.
Boris Spassky

Work, Theatre, Cinema

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.
Steve Sabol

Music, End, Game

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

Life, Difficult, Quite

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov

Art, Game, Through

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