The most dangerous area is the centre, which has to be either attacked or defended in football, and it’s the same in chess. – Henrikh Mkhitaryan
I play football like chess. You have to think a lot and anticipate what could happen after you make your move. – Henrikh Mkhitaryan
My characters aren’t chess pieces. I don’t move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people. – Jeff Nichols
Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences. – John Ortberg
I keep track of my blog stats, Facebook subs, my Amazon rank, Twitter followers, Facebook likes per posts, my chess ranking. I get stressed when they all don’t go up. – James Altucher
Jack White is an extraordinary person because he’s like a three-dimensional chess player. He thinks so far ahead. – Jimmy Page
After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired. – Anatoly Karpov
A woman can beat any man; it’s difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That’s why I like chess. – Alexandra Kosteniuk
We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board. – Arnon Goldfinger
My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world’s map, to make it part of the world’s geography again. – Anatoly Karpov
I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back. – Anatoly Karpov
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
I didn’t know so well chess theory, the theory of chess openings. And so, of course I knew the theory, but not on the level of the best players, so this was my… this was always my weakness. – Anatoly Karpov
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands. – Alexander Alekhine
Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though. – Boris Spassky
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that. – Boris Spassky
No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess. – Anatoly Karpov
I’d like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing. – Christopher Meloni
If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it’s stalemate. There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like. – Aung San Suu Kyi