Chess Match Quotes

#1. Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature.

Boyd Rice

#2. I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.

Lou Gerstner

#3. Tennis is a 100-mph chess match.

Gabriela Sabatini

#4. And so without our primordial attachments to others, what would we be?
Evidently, we would be the players of a game, one that resembled a giant chess match, with our fellow human beings as the rooks, the knights, and the pawns. For this is the essence of sociopathic behavior, and desire.

Martha Stout

#5. 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

#6. Little boys are still playing the game [baseball], more little girls are playing, and it is still the world's most interesting game, a duel, a chess match, a foot race, a gymnastics exhibition, that rare opportunity for individuals to be recognized within a group effort.

Robert Lipsyte

#7. I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.

Bobby Fischer

#8. Like flowers scattered in a storm, man's life is one long farewell

Haruki Murakami

#9. Instead of critics reviewing my movies, now what they're really doing is trying to match wits with me. Every time they review my movies, it's like they want to play chess with the mastermind and show off every reference they can find, even when half of it is all of their own making.

Quentin Tarantino

#10. I'm much better at saying something on the answering machine than texting.

Igor Levit

#11. People have shapes.All we do and say and think and believe cuts outlines around us like a jigsaw.And sometimes, you run into a person who seems to fit right beside you in the picture.Someone who sticks out where you dent in and zigs where you zag.

Ben Stephenson

#12. The ultimate consequence of misology is a kind of self-destruction in which what is destroyed is that aspect of the self represented by active reason

David A. White

#13. In the Soviet Union, for instance, the pressure on the chess stars was immense. When Boris Spassky came home after losing that match, he found he no longer had an apartment in Moscow.

Liz Garbus

#14. In vain do we seek to awaken our churches to zeal in evangelism as a separate thing. To be genuine it must flow from love to Christ. It is when a sense of personal communion with the Son of God is highest that we shall be most fit for missionary work, either ourselves or to stir up others.

Archibald Alexander

#15. My opponent is Short and the match will be short.

Garry Kasparov

#16. Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world.

Richard Dawkins

#17. A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

Emo Philips

#18. Bezos is like a chess master playing countless games simultaneously, with the boards organized in such a way that he can efficiently tend to each match.

Brad Stone

#19. To play a match for the World Championship is the cherished dream of every chess player.

David Bronstein

#20. Within these premises, the only thing one can be is an impeccable mediator. One is not the player in this cosmic match of chess, one is simply a pawn on the chessboard. What decides everything is a conscious impersonal energy that sorcerers call intent or the Spirit.

Carlos Castaneda

#21. Method rules his training, which blends the physical with the mental. How many chess masters put in, prior to an important match, an allotted time daily to bicycling and shadow-boxing, followed by a cold douche and a brisk rub down?

Hans Kmoch

#22. If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all.

Anatoly Karpov

#23. Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing.

Garry Kasparov

#24. summertime." "I remember it well.

John D. MacDonald

#25. When I turned 16, I thought I was a man. I needed the money. When you don't have it, crazy thoughts go through your mind.

Snoop Dogg

#26. He didn't fold his arms around her, and he didn't hold her close. Instead, he gave her a kiss that suggested a future.

Meredith Marple

#27. Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.

V.E Schwab

#28. Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's

George Eliot

#29. Watching the season for me is about watching the chess matches.

Ray Lewis

#30. There is technology where you can watch the match live online and also on TV. If people understood the game, I'm sure we would have a lot of chess fans by now.

Viswanathan Anand

#31. There is nothing but meetings and partings in this world - Anne Shirley

L.M. Montgomery

#32. It was 2:49 in the morning. I had never, in my entire life, felt less tired.

John Green

#33. Bridget did not budge, and her face was without expression. She sat, quietly defeated like a chess player who lost a career match in less than four moves.

Emmie White

#34. Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.

Viswanathan Anand