#chess

Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess. ↗

— Emanuel Lasker

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A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

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In life, as in chess, forethought wins. ↗

— Charles Buxton

#forethought #life #wins

Life's to short for chess. ↗

— Henry James Byron

#life #short

Life's too short for chess. ↗

— Henry James Byron

#life #short #too

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited. ↗

— Kate Chopin

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If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all. ↗

— Lennox Lewis

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In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess. ↗

— Lennox Lewis

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