- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- 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
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.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm used to litigating against incredibly competent, high-quality lawyers that are very good chess players.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and internal issues with my chess life. Tai chi is the martial embodiment of Taoist philosophy. Initially, I had no intention of competing in the martial arts; it was just the meditation.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.
- Nov 07, 2020
Life's to short for chess.
- Nov 07, 2020
Life's too short for chess.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the chess game that I do on 'Suits.' I just love every bit of it and that I get to do it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Chess is mental torture.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I saw 'Chess' in London, I thought it was horrible. It was so static. People were coming down front and just facing the audience, singing.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
- His
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.
- Nov 07, 2020
Chess is life.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely. That's what I don't like.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to constantly work on my reflexes and hand-eye coordination. I do a lot of puzzles. I play chess.
- Nov 07, 2020
We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.
- Nov 07, 2020
In Kansas I have a chess school.
- Close
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.
- Geography
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- Nov 07, 2020
My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all.
- Objective
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- Nov 07, 2020