Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's been a tremendous rivalry. The matches have been tactical matches which is more like a chess match. If they end up in the finals of the Big 12, I think it's going to be a great match. If they end up in the finals of the national tournament I think it's going to be another great match.

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.

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.

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

Walter Jones

It's like a chess match. It's all about execution and staying with your plays.

It's like a chess game. Defense is recognition. Those guys usually know us better than we know ourselves. That's why we just run the same things and give them all kinds of different looks.

It's always a chess match this time of year. It's more mental than anything else and I don't want to say we feel confident about anyone, but we feel confident within our own game in what we can do and take away from people.

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

Steve Hamilton

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

Howard Staunton

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

Chess is cool because you really have to get the right moves in your head before you play the game.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

The London Stock Exchange is a critical piece on the chess board. So you have to put a big premium on the price.

Mark Zuckerberg

Why are most chess masters under 30?

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.

Garry Kasparov

Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.

Garry Kasparov

In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

Garry Kasparov

A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.

Garry Kasparov

Chess is not dominoes

Garry Kasparov

Perfectly correct chess exists only in theory.

Garry Kasparov

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

Garry Kasparov

Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that computer superiority over humans in chess had always been just a matter of time.

Garry Kasparov

Chess is mental torture.

Garry Kasparov

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

John Maynard Keynes

Chess is a cure for headaches.

Lars von Trier

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

Magnus Carlsen

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.

Pablo Picasso

Never copy yourself, always copy someone else.

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.