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Chess Quotes


"I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country."


"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."


"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though."


"Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways."


"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."


"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."


"Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won."


"The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner."


"I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting."


"Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess."


"I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess."


"Chess first of all teaches you to be objective."


"The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost."


"I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any."


"The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that."
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