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  • 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.

    "Interview with a dedicated Chess Parent in South Africa, Pearl Kander-Moodley". "Africa Chess Net" Interview, africachess.net. April 12, 2015.
  • Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the quiet positional players. They slowly grind you down by taking away your space, tying up your pieces, and leaving you with virtually nothing to do!

    Success   Player   Games  
  • I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.

  • Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players.

    Zicheng Hong, Tze-chiang Chao (1959). “A Chinese Garden of Serenity: Epigrams from the Ming Dynasty "Discourses on Vegetable Roots"”
  • Tactics flow from a superior position

  • For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in one lifetime.

  • In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

    Life   Games   Chess Game  
  • First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game

    Success   Player   Games  
  • The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.

    Games   Chess Game   Mind  
    François Danican Philidor, Sir William Jones, Benjamin Franklin (1824). “An Easy Introduction to the Game of Chess: Containing One Hundred Examples of Games and a Great Variety of Critical Situations and Conclusions ; Including the Whole of Philidor's Analysis with Copious Selections from Stamma, the Calabrois, &c”, p.237
  • Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind

  • Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all.

    Chess Game   Chess   Poor  
  • Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.

    Mistake   Errors   Games  
  • The hardest game to win is a won game

    Success   Winning   Games  
  • Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.

    "New Again: Tom Cruise and Cameron Crowe". Interview with Jeff Oloizia, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2011.
  • That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one

  • A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!

  • To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.

    Mean   Destiny   Games  
  • I love chess, and I didn't invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead. A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. I'm really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorisation and prearrangement like it is today.

    Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. June 27, 1999.
  • I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

    Believe   Men   Thinking  
    "What Makes a Gentleman?". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. October 11, 2011.
  • American democracy is a chess-game in which pawns imagine themselves to be free individuals with wills of their own: that delusion is one of the rules of the game, without which the game could not continue. I doubt anyone, no matter how sharp and sharp-tongued, could succeed in getting across to high school students how vital an acute mind is for just keeping a grip on one's life and earnings in our mendacious politics and economics. No wonder our school system is devoutly dedicated to demoralizing and blunting such minds.

  • No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

  • Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.

  • I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

    "Chess is a wonderful game, but it's no life coach" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2015.
  • You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer

  • Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

    Crush   War   Chess Game  
  • I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.

  • Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to learn to be able to do

  • Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.

    Hurt   Moving   Mean  
  • The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

  • Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise them. It is because combinations are possible that Chess is more than a lifeless mathematical exercise. They are the poetry of the game; they are to Chess what melody is to music. They represent the triumph of mind over matter

    Reuben Fine (1948). “The World's a Chessboard”
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