Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. – David Hockney
I honestly don’t read that much. Obviously I read chess books – in terms of favorites, Kasparov’s ‘My Great Predecessors’ is pretty good. – Magnus Carlsen
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman. – Charles Dudley Warner
Right now I’m really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I’m not thinking of doing anything else. – Magnus Carlsen
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport. – Magnus Carlsen
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
The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time. – Marilyn vos Savant
In chess, there are some extremely beautiful things in the domain of movement, but not in the visual domain. It’s the imagining of the movement or of the gesture that makes the beauty in this case. – Marcel Duchamp
I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened. – Marcel Duchamp
What do I do when we’re not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess. – Ryan Stiles
If I’m home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story. – Rex Stout
I was involved in a bunch of school activities – I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class. – Olivia Holt
Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don’t think he is not capable of hurting you. – Ron Livingston
The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets. – Robert Shea
I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making ‘Andromeda.’ – Ricky Schroder
In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation. – Viswanathan Anand
In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue – 20,500 – and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities. – Viswanathan Anand
I don’t know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation. – Viswanathan Anand