#chess

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#chess #getting #like #man #nothing

Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#because #chess #choice #competition #difficulties

All I want to do, ever, is play chess. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#ever #i #play #want

Chess is life. ↗

— Bobby Fischer

#life

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#duchess #happy #imagination #man #were

Chess is my life, but my life is not chess. ↗

— Anatoly Karpov

#life #my life

Chess is mental torture. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#mental #torture

I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It's not like I'm trying to make the right chess move. It's more just that personal thing where you get connected to something for so long and then you want to do something that's in opposition to that. ↗

— Anna Kendrick

#chess #connected #direct #done #get

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#chess #feel #game #i #i feel

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#better #board #calmly #chess #good