#chess

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people. ↗

— Nigel Short

#chess #got #kill #people #prepared

Chess is intellectual gymnastics. ↗

— Wilhelm Steinitz

#gymnastics #intellectual

Chess is not for timid souls. ↗

— Wilhelm Steinitz

#souls #timid

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#duchess #earth #nothing #peasant #sees

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game. ↗

— Wilhelm Steinitz

#capable #chess #during #evil #game

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. ↗

— Ryan Stiles

#dark #earth #i #i do #plans

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story. ↗

— Rex Stout

#books #chess #chore #come #detective

Chess is not only knowledge and logic. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#knowledge #logic #only

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#governed #head #heart #kindness #little

We are men who find chess fascinating. Did you expect our lives to be secretly interesting? ↗

— Noah Boyd

#humor #humor