Quotes About Chess Knight

#1. Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.

John Rhys-Davies

#2. And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.

Ezra Pound

#3. Wouldn't you rather play chess, Ma'am? ... It's less destructive of clothes.

Rowena Cherry

#4. Myron, like countless NCO's before him, had discovered the ideal compromise between power and responsibility.

Arthur C. Clarke

#5. I believe in permanent revolution.

Germaine Greer

#6. What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

Jimmy Wales

#7. A knight ending is really a pawn ending.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#8. In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.

Tariq Ali

#9. My favorite genre of movies growing up was the romantic comedy.

Jennifer Finnigan

#10. I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.'

Bill Callahan

#11. When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport.

Ashot Nadanian

#12. Every accomplishment begins with the decision to try.

Esther Thomas

#13. Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!

Mikhail Tal

#14. Well, the U.N. Security Council resolution 1973 is very clear. It says all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians and civilian areas. I mean, that to me is very clear.

Mike Jackson

#15. In blitz, the Knight is stronger than the Bishop

Vlastimil Hort

#16. The fact that a knight is temporarily on the edge of the board is of no great significance.

Anatoly Karpov

#17. I've never given anybody steroids before. I've been checked out three times already, and I'm clean. I've been clean all my life.

Miguel Tejada

#18. Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

Rudyard Kipling

#19. The Block were not his enemy any more than the terror groups had been, however. They were just opponents in someone's obscene game of chess. It was stupid for a knight to hate a pawn just because it flew a different flag.

Evan Currie

#20. The professional's grasp of the numbers is a measure of the control he has over the events that the figures represent.

Harold Geneen

#21. I wanted to watch a movie or listen to some music, so I did both. I put on a DVD of The Wizard of Oz and a CD of Metallica's Ride the Lightning. IT TURNS OUT THAT WHEN YOU PLAY THEM BOTH TOGETHER, YOU GET ALL THE ANSWERS.

John Moe

#22. I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

Robertson Davies

#23. Diabetes is passed that way
over and down, like a knight in chess.

Maile Meloy

#24. They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.

Bobby Fischer

#25. Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or than bishop and knight, though very few know the reason for this advantage and how to turn it to account.

Richard Reti

#26. I have some wigs at home just for fun. Throughout my years, my hair has been treated in a not very nice way, so I have to be careful.

Carice Van Houten

#27. The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

Ellen Key

#28. Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.

Savielly Tartakower