A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
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Reading about baseball is a lot more interesting than reading about chess, but you have to wonder: Don't any of these guys ever go fishing?
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Our situation has the disaffected beauty of a chess game.
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Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble.
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The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
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The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
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It’s more easy to win a chess game in five minutes than it is to talk about Russia’s problems in 15 minutes
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Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world [chess] championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
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A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
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The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.
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These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.
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It's a great huge game of chess that's being played—all over the world—if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wi...
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In chess we find several quite crisp distinctions that can also be discerned rather more problematically in the larger game of life. There are...
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Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
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One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
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I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art -- and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
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People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
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After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired.
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How could I lose to such an idiot?
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Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.
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Chess is mental torture.
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Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
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In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
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Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
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My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
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Life's too short for chess.
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If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.
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People's affections can be as thin as paper; life is like a game of chess, changing with each move.
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