It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.
The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.
Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
I play football like chess. You have to think a lot and anticipate what could happen after you make your move.
I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame.
The most dangerous area is the centre, which has to be either attacked or defended in football, and it's the same in chess.
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.
I play golf, and I play chess, and sometimes I go to the gym. On the airplane or between acts when I do the performance, I play Candy Crush to forget what happens around me, just to be alone, not thinking... You need to clear your brain.
Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.
In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.
I'd love to see pitches start very dry all over the world, which is good for batting but means there will be turn - a cricket match without spinners is like a chess match without two important pieces - a less interesting game.
I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.
My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess.
Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
When humans team up with computers to play chess, the humans who do best are not necessarily the strongest players. They're the ones who are modest and who know when to listen to the computer. Often, what the human adds is knowledge of when the computer needs to look more deeply.
I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.
Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course, chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have a very strong nervous system, and then you must be well prepared; you must be able to work a lot.
Life's too short for chess.
I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.
The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.
A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.
Chess is not only knowledge and logic.
My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.
We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.
Sometimes as writers, we try and put narrative development above character development. We try to move our characters around like chess pieces that do our bidding. The problem with that is sometimes the characters do things they shouldn't do. Things that are inorganic.
Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.
I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.
I didn't know so well chess theory, the theory of chess openings. And so, of course I knew the theory, but not on the level of the best players, so this was my... this was always my weakness.