#chess

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#between #chess #dec #enough #i

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#clubs #freshman #freshman year #high #high school

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#consider #genius #happens #i #myself

I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak. ↗

— Emma Watson

#chess #cloak #film #first #got

Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#could #ever #every #learn #like

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this. ↗

— John Harsanyi

#chess #competitors #decades #games #haven

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. ↗

— David Hockney

#chess #drawing #eventually #like #make

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#daring #ideas #games

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind. ↗

— Adolf Anderssen

#gymnasium #mind

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#been #bring #certainly #chess #down