Chernev Chess Quotes

#1. But your dad's enjoying it. He's been rigging traps

Shannon Messenger

#2. Chess is not for the timid.

Irving Chernev

#3. The best initial move for white is 1. P-K4.

Irving Chernev

#4. The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#5. You can KNOW something yet FAIL to do it!

Kevin Myers

#6. Every Chess master was once a beginner

Irving Chernev

#7. All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.

Josef Pieper

#8. I'll take you with me.

Miyuki Miyabe

#9. Throughout the parables the paradoxical teachings continue: Give to receive. Die to live. Lose to win.

Amos Smith

#10. I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

John Podhoretz

#11. There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave,

George R R Martin

#12. I never troll for material. It simply presents itself, and is always unmistakable. This is why I want to roll my eyes when people interrupt themselves in the middle of some story they're telling me to say, "You know you can't write about this."

Dani Shapiro

#13. The messages a woman receives from modern North American culture are contradictory; she needs a job for fulfillment but should be home with her children; she is more than her looks, but she had better wear makeup and stay thin; she has every opportunity men have but only on men's terms.

Janell L. Carroll

#14. To learn more, we have to be willing to leave the zone of the known and step into the void.

Dennis Merritt Jones

#15. She puckered her bubble gum mouth until its exaggerated sensuality drew attention away from the blood-blue crescents beneath her eyes. "My bags may be packed, but I haven't left town. No wonder Ricki finds me irresistible. She's only human." Leaning

Tom Robbins

#16. I'd love to say fashion faux pas differ from country to country, but they don't.

Trinny Woodall

#17. The thought of being with Shay Wilder makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a butter knife

Lisa McMann

#18. The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly

Irving Chernev