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Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and...

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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I...

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I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commerciali...

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All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., ar...

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Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess ch...

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I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured...

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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel...

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In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip some...

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I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that...

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And perhaps it was precisely because she knew nothing at all about chess that chess for her was not ...

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A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

She plays chess from the passions and I play it from logic and she usually wins. Once, I took her qu...

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I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted t...

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I like the moment when I break a man's ego

The reason I like the game chess is because each move has countless repercussions, but you're in cha...

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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes t...

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It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. D...

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Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, ...

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He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of ...

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When the end comes, I will meet it raging.