When we were playing chess in the house, she would never let me win until I was good enough to beat her. It was always a competition. She was also always there for me. She was a very caring, loving mom, and the sacrifices she made to allow me to get to where I am today, I'll be forever in debt.

Alex Bregman

I had a lot of fun playing football and basketball, but deep down, the chess match or cat-and-mouse game between the pitcher and batter in baseball really drew me in. It's a thinking man's game, and for me, nothing can compare to that.

Aaron Judge

In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as you're composing all of the ramifications of each move, of each choice you make.

Adam Ross

I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through and I don't see them as chess pieces.

Adrienne Shelly

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

Al Leiter

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.

Al Leiter

I don't think the computer will win the Booker, but no-one ever expected a computer to beat a chess grandmaster.

Alastair Reynolds

When we were playing chess in the house, she would never let me win until I was good enough to beat her. It was always a competition. She was also always there for me. She was a very caring, loving mom, and the sacrifices she made to allow me to get to where I am today, I'll be forever in debt.

Alex Bregman

I could think six shots ahead. It's no different to playing chess.

Alex Higgins

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

Alexander Alekhine

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

Alexander Alekhine

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

Alexander Alekhine

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

Alexander Alekhine

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.

Alexandra Kosteniuk

Stereotyped as convention-going, pocket-protector-wearing, chess-playing, infrequently-showering types, nerds are one of our society's most ridiculed groups. And, for a university with an international reputation as a bastion of intellectualism, Harvard is startlingly devoid of them.

Alexandra Petri

The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling.

Amber Benson

As a personality, I'm fighter, you know. And I don't give up, and if I believe I'm correct, I'm right, then I work, and I fight. Okay, this could be over a chess board, this could be in life, and so I defend my principles.

Anatoly Karpov