Chess Quotes - Page 40

• The world championship is a disputed title. You've got a situation like boxing. Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified.

  Yasser Seirawan

  Boxing, Titles, World

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• You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

  H. G. Wells

  Artist, Wish, Bombs

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.8287, Delphi Classics

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• Chess is more than a game or a mental training. It is a distinct attainment. I have always regarded the playing of chess and the accomplishment of a good game as an art, and something to be admired no less than an artist's canvas or the product of a sculptor's chisel. Chess is a mental diversion rather than a game. It is both artistic and scientific.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Art, Games, Accomplishment

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• In chess it is more important to frustrate your opponent's strategy than to be obsessed with your own.

  Larry Evans

  Important, Opponents, Strategy

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• Chess is not a game, but a disease.

  Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  Games, Disease

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• Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Moving, Intuition, Mind

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• Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.

  Louis Dudek

  Country, Book, Hockey

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• I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make man happy.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Men, Like Love, Feelings

  Siegbert Tarrasch (1960). “Best Games of Chess”, Dover Publications

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• I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming - or buying software - on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.

  Ted Nelson

  Believe, Garbage Cans, Differences

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• Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Player, Mad, Imagination

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Snooker is just chess with balls.

  Clive James

  Balls, Snooker

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• Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Champion, Titles, Relief

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• I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Sports, Games, Accepted

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• You are never too old to play chess!

  Bobby Fischer

  Play

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• I like the little chess match of how people move through space. I'm not comparing myself to Michelangelo with this analogy, but he said when he sculpts it's like finding the sculpture within. It feels that way when you are with actors, too. There's a natural way to do this with a natural language that flows and feels like real people talking. And you've just got to find it. So I enjoy that part of the process.

  Timothy Miller

  Real, Moving, Space

  Source: screenrant.com

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• During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player
  extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His
  favorite time of day is half past six in the evening, when he meets Mrs. Marsden's train at the
  station, as the latter returns from her day in London. On Sunday afternoons, rain or shine,
  Professor and Mrs. Marsden take a walk along The Backs, and treasure growing old
  together.

  Sherry Thomas

  Rain, Sunday, Player

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• Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals.

  Perry DeAngelis

  Animal, Play, Together

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• I'm not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while, you can almost see lines of force between the pieces. Areas of danger where it is physically impossible to move pieces into. Clouds of possibility, forbidden zones.

  Hannu Rajaniemi

  Moving, Player, Games

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• If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.

  Mark Millar

  Play, Organization, Want

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• When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

  Michael Birch

  Kids, Exercise, Thinking

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• Most innovative little board game since Chess.

  Michael A. Stackpole

  Games, Boards, Littles

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• The Indians and Chinese have become brilliant chess professionals. They get on a plane and play all over the world. This has led to dramatic pressure on incomes. Nowadays, the best chess player in Argentina can no longer make a living playing chess.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Player, Chinese, Argentina

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end.

  Garry Kasparov

  Games, Ends, Fixed

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy?

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Bridges, Intellectual

  Source: time.com

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• Chess computers do not sweat during time pressure and commit costly blunders. Furthermore, the strength of these programs (over and above their faultless recall processes) lies in their capacity to make relatively superficial tactical decisions with incredible speed. Positional values, long-range strategy, aesthetic judgment, and political astuteness remain staples of human performance, man vs. machine results in the foreseeable future to the contrary not withstanding.

  Ira Carmen

  Lying, Men, Sweat

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