Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clive James

Snooker is just chess with balls.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.

like a three-dimensional chess game. . . . The key is that the messages not be too far apart.

MEN LISTEN. Life is a chess game. PROTECT YOUR QUEENS

Football is a chess game. You always try to stay one move ahead.

They'll be competing with companies like Computer Associates. This is the opening move in a larger chess game.

This is like a chess match for me. I'm trying to understand who likes me and who doesn't because they won't tell you. A lot of guys have stats to throw around. Auburn isn't pass-oriented. We have to show up (to scouts) in other ways. I'm not nervous or anything, but there's a lot of anticipation.

Tony Stewart

It's such a chess match. You can be leading the race one second, and you can be fifth the next second. I think it's just a matter of timing and getting yourself in the right place at the right time.

David Letterman

There just isn't enough televised Chess

We think the game is a chess game you're playing all the time,

David Taras

You have to have a niche, a place to play on the chess board. You needed to start running a year ago unless you're Preston.

J. K. Rowling

Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.

H. G. Wells

There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

Howard Staunton

After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game

First, we want him to be healthy, and if he's athletic, that's great. But we always kid around that if he's a 7-foot chess player, that's fine.

Chris Evans

Everything that Marvel does, it's a chess move. Nothing is by accident.

Between UMBC and UT-Dallas, they're the two powerhouses of collegiate chess in the country. Third place is fairly distant.

Wrestling is a physical chess match. What he does is put extra effort before and after practice to sharpen his skills. He doesn't need to be motivated. He motivates himself.

Wyclef Jean

You get conflicts all of the time. But you have to know how to play the chess game. We come with results, and we come with solutions.

Nigel Short

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

Savielly Tartakower

Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.

Savielly Tartakower

The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing

Savielly Tartakower

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

Mark Zuckerberg

Why are most chess masters under 30?

Norbert Wiener

Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst.

Pablo Picasso

Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.

Steve Hamilton

I compare it to being like a chess game, because you have to think so many moves ahead.

In my apartment, I have a region with a chess table. This region wants to be in a den.

Justin Gatlin

I knew Tyson gets out very fast, and Wallace comes on strong at the end. I had to make sure I was patient throughout the whole race. I was pawning, playing chess with the guys.

It's an exciting sport to watch. It's a chess match, that's active.

It'll be a chess match, that first 20 minutes.

Steven Gerrard

It was like a chess game. We defended well and 0-0 is a good result but the tie isn't over, it's just half-time,

I've heard it called playing chess and pool at the same time, with people, because it's all about outwitting your opponent and knowing the angles. It requires a lot of training and practice.