Chess Quotes - Page 34

• Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and soul of human existence-then why bother existing? to produce human art a computer would have to find, feel, absorb reality to the point it is overcome, to the point it sobs for release. A computer perhaps could replicate every possibility but could never transfer the energy art requires to exist in the first place.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  Art, Reality, Expression

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• 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.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Brother, Games

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• Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Writing, Three, Pages

  The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. April 21, 2000.

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• Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

  Al Leiter

  Book, Games, Chess Game

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• We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.

  Hod Lipson

  Play, Car, Desert

  "Robot-To-Robot Chat Yields Curious Conversation". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 1, 2011.

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• For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man.

  Craig Claiborne

  Drinking, Wine, Men

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• A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the Soviet Union. He had learnt it at elementary school; at secondary school; at his sports club; at the Komsomol; at the university; at a folk dancing course; at the chess-club.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Sports, Humorous

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• [Professor Bragg asserts that] In sodium chloride there appear to be no molecules represented by NaCl. The equality in number of sodium and chlorine atoms is arrived at by a chess-board pattern of these atoms; it is a result of geometry and not of a pairing-off of the atoms.

  Henry Edward Armstrong

  Science, Numbers, Sodium

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• Little boys are still playing the game [baseball], more little girls are playing, and it is still the world's most interesting game, a duel, a chess match, a foot race, a gymnastics exhibition, that rare opportunity for individuals to be recognized within a group effort.

  Robert Lipsyte

  Girl, Sports, Baseball

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• I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Mean, Phones, Cells

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• The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling.

  Amber Benson

  Writing, Games, Chess Game

  "Amber Benson: From vampires to 'Among the Ghosts'" by Louis Peitzman, www.sfgate.com. October 21, 2010.

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• Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Sports, Doe, Minorities

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• I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Book, Term, Honestly

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

  Magnus Carlsen

  Player, Different, Common

  "The (New) Greatest Chess Player Of All Time". Interview with Ryan McKee, www.askmen.com. December 10, 2012.

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• Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Thinking, Careers, Really Happy

  Interview with Ryan McKee, www.askmen.com. December 10, 2012.

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• I was lucky enough to attend schools where they were understanding about when I needed to go abroad to play chess. Of course, socially it is important to go to school and interact with people your own age.

  Magnus Carlsen

  School, Play, People

  "The (New) Greatest Chess Player Of All Time". Interview with Ryan McKee, www.askmen.com. December 10, 2012.

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• Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Talent, Satisfied, Knows

  "The Top Chess Player In The World Impressed The Heck Out Of Everyone At This NYC Exhibition". Interview with Gus Lubin, www.businessinsider.com. September 4, 2012.

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• One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Intelligent, Men, People

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• The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Solitude, Listening, Age

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• Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

  Yann Martel

  Baseball, Sex, Drinking

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.5, Vintage Canada

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• I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.

  Steven Johnson

  Sports, Dragons, Games

  Steven Johnson (2006). “Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter”, p.8, Penguin

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• The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

  Al Leiter

  Play, Pitcher, Settings

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• Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Chess Pieces

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• Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and internal issues with my chess life. Tai chi is the martial embodiment of Taoist philosophy. Initially, I had no intention of competing in the martial arts; it was just the meditation.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Art, Philosophy, Issues

  "'Art of Learning' isn't just black and white". Interview with Tracey Wong Briggs, usatoday30.usatoday.com. July 17, 2007.

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• I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Art, Eye, Two

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