We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema – some actors don’t like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre. – Boris Spassky
Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess – players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation. – Boris Spassky
I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through and I don’t see them as chess pieces. – Adrienne Shelly
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense. – Boris Spassky
The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It’s the mental toughness. – Edward Zwick
I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country. – Garry Kasparov
Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they’ve beaten our top human chess champions. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory. – Douglass North
When I saw ‘Chess’ in London, I thought it was horrible. It was so static. People were coming down front and just facing the audience, singing. – Donna McKechnie
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
I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn’t even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess. – Magnus Carlsen
I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn’t serve to bring me down any. – Maurice Ashley
I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly. – Magnus Carlsen
Maybe if I didn’t have the talent in chess I’d find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I’m satisfied with that. – Magnus Carlsen
Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have been around during the fervor of the match in Reykjavik and the rise of Bobby Fischer, so those two things conspired to pique my interest. – Edward Zwick
Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote. – Donald E. Westlake
I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up. – Magnus Carlsen
In chess, we have styles – like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I’m trying to know my opponent as much as possible. – Garry Kasparov
It’s easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common. – Magnus Carlsen
I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that. – David Bailey