- Nov 07, 2020
Chess Quotes
Lines on strategy, patience, and the quiet beauty of chess.
These lines treat chess as both a mental discipline and an art form, calling for a cool head under pressure while also describing the beauty found in a technical, almost mathematical kind of clarity. One player links the game directly to artistic language, treating strategy as its own creative act. See Game for more on strategic thinking.
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- Souls
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chess is not for timid souls.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Emphasizing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be in the one city where there was a sprouting chess team: Chennai.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
- Players
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.
- Nov 07, 2020
I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020