322 Quotes About Chess

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.

To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires thinking.

To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking.

He knew once he stepped into that kind of environment, again, the options would be limited. He’d no longer have the freedom or control to make any important decisions. He’d be just another pawn to be used on the chessboard by the white shirt bosses, who would likely be making their decisions from a safe distant location and passing them along down the totem pole. It was just how his job worked.

Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.

You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you’ve closed for the day and flips the board.

Gameplay is all our life. Either we guard, attack or develop pieces.

In chess, without the king, the other pieces would all be "dead", so their existance is supported by the king, but they need to serve the king with their capacity for action in order to have a good game.