At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk - games I find far less addictive than the spectacular games created for consoles these days. But, whenever I get the chance, I head over to my friend Kyri's house to play his PS3.
Even though chess isn't the toughest thing that computers will tackle for centuries, it stood as a handy symbol for human intelligence. No matter what human-like feat computers perform in the future, the Deep Blue match demands an indelible dot on all timelines of AI progress.
She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.
Chess is not for timid souls.
I keep track of my blog stats, Facebook subs, my Amazon rank, Twitter followers, Facebook likes per posts, my chess ranking. I get stressed when they all don't go up.
My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.
Chess is mental torture.
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.
If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.
It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
In chess, there are some extremely beautiful things in the domain of movement, but not in the visual domain. It's the imagining of the movement or of the gesture that makes the beauty in this case.
My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.
There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.
A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.
Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.