Quotes about Chess

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He knew taht many of his compatriots avoided marriage at all costs. They saw matrimony as an annoyance, a wife as anothe — Courtney Milan, The Duchess War
When our mental functioning is whittling away and our mind becomes a lame duck, perception does not form the context any — Erik Pevernagie
I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of — Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker
Why haven't I got a husband and children?" mused Greta Garbo to the Dutchess of Windsor, "I never met a man I could marr — Greta Garbo
She’d been feeling pleased with a couple of moves, had thought she was gaining the upper hand. But she’d been overconfid — Emily Arden, Lie to me: Deception: Book Two
A relationship is a game of chess. — Sophie Kinsella, Can You Keep a Secret?
The Queen (Victoria) wrote generously to her mother, 'I quite understand your feelings on the occasion of Sir John Conro — Cecil Woodham-Smith, Queen Victoria, From her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort
Today, some chess games can't go in 40 minutes. One game not every time can finish fast, sometimes it's difficult to win — Deyth Banger
Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective. — Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2
You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you’ve closed for the day and flips — Mark Miller, Chess, Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership Game
The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer — Mikhail Tal
Magic = Chess, Chess is with strategy, doing moves which people think that they are random, but they aren't random. They — Deyth Banger
I didn't mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room I had to live in. It was all I had in th — Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. Dr. Juvenal Urbino no — Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board — Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea
Uh, she said maybe your eyes matched the Fog like a synchronous magnetic field?” “I don’t even know what language that i — Joel N. Ross, The Lost Compass
Imagine God and Man set down together to play that game of chess that we call life. The one player is a master, the othe — Elizabeth Goudge
To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires thinking. — Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking. — Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. — William Hazlitt, Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners