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The god inside the man glanced at Aly. "This is your chessboard, I believe, my dear."
Aly beamed at him. "So it is. And the game begins.
Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.
The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.
A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.
Chess reflects the real world in miniature. Endeavor, struggle, success, and defeat - they are part of each game ever played.
Sometimes," he said at last, as if it were an enormous effort to formulate his thoughts, "I wonder if chess is something man invented or if he merely discovered it. It's as if it were something that has always been there, since the beginning of the universe. Like whole numbers.
Chess is 99 percent calculation.
Chess is not just a game. It is a way of life.
There is nothing like chess to keep the brain smart, and give it a workout.
By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight.
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
You know a good board when you see one.
Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook.
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life
Chess is a cold bath for the mind
What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.
Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and God endows it with its blessed power of making people happy.
Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.
I don't know if people know this but I am pretty good at chess. I was always on the chess team at school when I was younger.
When the game begins, let your rook remain in its position as the knight and the bishop advance to occupy the empty squares created by the moved pawns.
Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.
Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved.
Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.
Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.
Chess is the only game greater than its players.
Life's to short for chess.
Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost.
Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.
Chess teaches that actions have consequences and the wise man - or woman - will always look to the endgame ...
Chess is life and every game is like a new life.
Chess is the art of analysis.
I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.
Chess is a curse upon a man.
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.
A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.
Now hold on, little girl, my father said. Chess is like real life. The white pieces go first so they got an advantage over the black pieces.
Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.
Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles
Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.
Here are some of the questions and answers to an examination paper in chess that was given some time ago
How gorgeous this chess set is.' Each piece was a delicate marble fantasy of medieval warfare. The paint had long ago worn off, except for faint touches of red, in the fury of the king's eyes, on the queen's lower lip, in the bishop's robe.
Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.
Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.
Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.
Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.
In a game of chess, someone has to take the black pieces.
The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.
The pawn is the soul of chess.
Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.
The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.
The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.
No fantasy, however rich, no technique, however masterly, no penetration into the psychology of the opponent, however deep, can make a chess game a work of art, if these qualities do not lead to the main goal - the search for truth.
The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake
Chess is a test of wills.
These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.
Chess is one long regret.
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.
Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so often, few have mastered them thoroughly. They are often of a very difficult nature, and sometimes while apparently very simple they are in reality extremely intricate.
Life's too short for chess.
On the chessboard, if nowhere else, justice does triumph.
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
The art of chess is akin to the art of war itself; full of strategy and cunning, yet clever placements.
If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white.
The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move
Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.
The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.
A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.
Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.
A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.
You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.
I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.
In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.
I play chess, but my past is checkered,
The mic and I are like staff and shepherd.
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
Then you'll love chess. Chess is checkers on steroids.
Chess is a fathead and feudal game.
Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated.
Chess is mental torture.
The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess.
When you play chess alone it's always your move.
We've been playing chess with this iPhone app. He hasn't made a move in so long our last game got forfeited. Ten days, or something like that."
"You two play chess on your phones?" Ty asked.
"Yeah." Zane shrugged.
A chess problem is an exercise in pure mathematics.
The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the strongest. For myself, I claim only to be a knight, advancing in a crooked progress. Do we move ourselves, do you think, or does a great gloved hand place on our squares
The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.
Ultimately chess is just chess - not the best thing in the world and not the worst thing in the world, but there is nothing quite like it.
Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.
Chess is not for timid souls.
Computers have changed the World of Chess.
Hold'em is to stud what chess is to checkers.
Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess.
Combination is a soul of chess.
In so-called communist Romania, chess was held in high esteem, even if our champions were weaker than the Soviets. This game, this "sport of the mind," was at the time a better way to establish your reputation than literature.
On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.
If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.
Just set up the board as best you can. We'll play with whatever we got.
All I ever want to do is just play chess.
Chess will always be the master of us all.
Chess is a game of understanding and not of memory.