322 Quotes About Chess

Ecco, sai giocare a scacchi. Adesso devi diventare un giocatore. Ci vorrà un po' di più.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ...It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

People, she was discovering, were like cockroaches: If you allowed one in, more were sure to follow.

When you see a good move, look for a better one

How the hell did people do this, this emotion-and-forgiveness thing? How did they stand these feelings? She could barely handle it and she had lovely, necessary, reason-for-living drugs to smooth over the rough spots. How did people do this shit sober?

It's an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it; I can dominate it. And it's predictable. So, if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.

Terrible thought she was brave. She remembered it now, heard his voice in her head as if he stood next to her. "They scared. Not you, though." Terrible thought she was brave, and if he - a man whose name was Terrible, a man whose path people scrambled to get out of - thought so, it must be true. She could do this, she would do this.

Life is more than just chess.Though king dies, life goes on.

Chess isn't always competitive. Chess can also be beautiful.