One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
Anatol Rapoport
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
John Fowles
Firstly, there is no such person as Death. Second, Death`s this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with Scandinavians. Third, he doesn`t exist either.
Neil Gaiman
[On Raging Bull (1980)]: "[Robert De Niro] wanted to make this film. Not me. I don`t understand anything about boxing. For me, it`s like a physical game of chess."
Martin Scorsese
People seem to think I`m a very religious person, very serious, that I`m an old man by now - and that I play a great deal of chess. Actually, I`m a family person. I`m rather private. I enjoy my work very much when it`s interesting and, fortunately, it`s b...
Max Sydow
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.
Alain Bauer
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.
Alain Bauer
The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets.
Andre Artero
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
On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.
Alain Bauer
On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.
Alain Bauer
Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it`s hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.
Alain Bauer
Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it`s hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.
Alain Bauer
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.
Peter Mayhew
Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life.
Martin Dansky
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