Top 39 Chess Piece Quotes
#1. When she moves a chess piece on the board, it isn't so she can win; it's to move the game forward. She's just keeping us all moving forward.
Danielle Stewart
#2. I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#3. The king was a strong piece, of course. The most important chess piece and the most vulnerable to attack. But the queen ... the queen was the most powerful chess piece. More powerful than the king. And the queen could move any way she wanted ...
Tiffany Reisz
#4. Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.
Tony Robbins
#5. Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
Ralph Charell
#6. Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life.
Frederick Lenz
#7. It's - just Bishop."
"You have only one name?" Unless he was a rock star or a chess piece, it was another sign that he was having trouble thinking straight.
Michelle Rowen
#8. A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.
Anthony Burgess
#9. The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.
Rumi
#10. Being in the military just lets you know how helpless you are. You could train forever but you're still at the mercy of someone in the Pentagon, or somebody in the rear moving you around like a chess piece.
Ice-T
#11. Daniel Wolpert, of Cambridge University, is fond of pointing out that IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer is capable of beating a grand master at the game of chess, but no computer has yet been developed that can move a chess piece from one square to another as well as a 3-year-old child.
Stuart Firestein
#12. Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.
Mal Peet
#13. Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.
G.H. Hardy
#15. You must not have played chess in a while. The king is the weakest piece in the game." He gave Justin a level look. "The queen's the strongest.
Richelle Mead
#16. The correct way to play chess is to develop each and every piece (chess is a team game!), get your King safely castled, and only then begin more aggressive maneuvers.
Jeremy Silman
#17. I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he is like an idiot savant, outside of chess he knows nothing.
Bobby Fischer
#18. 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
#19. It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.
Courtney Love
#21. How gorgeous this chess set is.' Each piece was a delicate marble fantasy of medieval warfare. The paint had long ago worn off, except for faint touches of red, in the fury of the king's eyes, on the queen's lower lip, in the bishop's robe.
Eloisa James
#22. There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than lively piece play, but in our day the latter is more often preferred.
David Bronstein
#24. 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
#25. In positions of strategic manoeuvring (where time is not of decisive importance) seek the worst-placed piece. Activating that piece is often the most reliable way of improving your position as a whole.
Mark Dvoretsky
#26. If you don't know what to do, find your worst Piece and look for a better Square.
Gerard Schwarz
#27. Tis useful nonetheless, now and then, to regard Politics here, as the greater American Question in Miniature, - in the way that Chess represents war, - with Governor Penn a game-piece in the form of the King.
Thomas Pynchon
#28. When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece ... in order to win.
Lionel Suggs
#29. But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is like reaching for a salary check in its demand on the contemplative faculties.
Robert Benchley
#30. The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the Pawn structure
Michael Stean
#31. To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#32. I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write ...
Wilhelm Steinitz
#33. Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are acculated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life!
Alan Rufus
#34. The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game.
Kelly Corrigan
#35. Only Uncle Pascha ignored her. He was contemplating his chessboard. She doubted that he'd move his piece today. It had been his turn for only six months. Once, he had gone three years between moves. He preferred a leisurely game.
Sarah Beth Durst
#36. It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#37. The art of chess is in knowing which is the most valuable piece in play, then having the courage to sacrifice it for the win.
Thomm Quackenbush
#38. Martial sex is kinda like ordering a Civil War chess set through the mail. You get one piece every four to six weeks, you don't know what kind of shape that piece is gonna be in when you get it, but you still gotta pay the handling charges.
Bill Engvall
#39. 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
