322 Quotes About Chess

A relationship is a game of chess.

She has gathered that the man in the grey suit whom her father called Alexander also has a student, and there will be some sort of game. "Like chess?" she asks once. "No," her father says. "Not like chess.

Remember the white knight."Though it seemed so long ago, he well remembered their conversation about the chess problem. The white knight had made a move, changed his mind, and started over."And do you believe this was a good move?" Mr. Benedict had asked."No, sir," Reynie had answered."Why, then, do you think he made it?"And Reynie had replied, "Perhaps because he doubted himself.

Everyone wants to be wanted and if all people wait for someone else to invest in them, the world will be stuck in an eternal stalemate: nobody moves and nobody wins.

The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.

Count Ambrosius was out of practice at chess. The usual game was dice, and he was not risking that against an infant soothsayer. Chess, being a matter of mathematics rather than magic, was less susceptible to the black arts.' --twelve-year-old Merlin, The Crystal Cave, p. 131 of 384

It was going to be our job to annoy someone?” “I know—it’s a dream come true!

Uh, she said maybe your eyes matched the Fog like a synchronous magnetic field?” “I don’t even know what language that is.

Did you just call me ‘sweetie’?” I asked. She shoved my shoulder. “No.