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.
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.
Chess is not only knowledge and logic.
Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.
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.
If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.
Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.
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.
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
After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired.
Las Vegas is a beautiful place. I like it more and more and plan to be here often. It's a great place for chess.
Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.
I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.
Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course, chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have a very strong nervous system, and then you must be well prepared; you must be able to work a lot.
I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.
My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.
No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.
I didn't know so well chess theory, the theory of chess openings. And so, of course I knew the theory, but not on the level of the best players, so this was my... this was always my weakness.
If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all.
I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.
In Kansas I have a chess school.
Online chess is very popular and cool, don't get me wrong, but it is a different discipline.
I think chess players are not always what you think them to be. Or maybe it's our job to appear serious.
Top players are privileged in the chess world.
Being one of the lucky ones I shouldn't be complaining, but for the chess world in general it would be good to find a structure in which chess professionals of lower levels would make a good living as well.
Yes, I think I have some good knowledge of India. I have lots of Indian friends in the chess fraternity.
If you are serious about being a professional chess player, do know what your parents think and what their expectations are from you.
My mother is Russian and father Nepalese, so we always had a chess board at home. Chess is part of the culture in both Russia and Nepal.
No, playing online is an entirely different experience and classical chess events never happen online.
As a chess player I learn to adapt to new situations and always try to make the best move without looking back or asking why and how I ended up in a situation I ended up in.
I started chess around the age of seven. I was inspired by the game, but soon legends like Kasparov, Karpov, Fischer, Anand and many other world champions captivated me.
Spending most of my time on chess there is not much else I can be much good at but I enjoy spending time with my wife, parents, siblings and friends, listening to music, some sports, the Web and well... the usual stuff.
I barely know what my plans are for tomorrow, but I hope chess will remain a major part of my life.
For the moment, I am more focused on classical chess rather than rapid and blitz, as I am hoping to make my move in the classical World championship cycle.
I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.
I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It's not like I'm trying to make the right chess move. It's more just that personal thing where you get connected to something for so long and then you want to do something that's in opposition to that.
I think everyone in the United States has such admiration for the British royal family, and with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, there's a whole new interest in the younger generation.
I am very lucky in my team. They sit opposite me, and I get to see them every day sitting there staring at the seating chart, not doing much. It is almost like a chess game.
Actually, one of the fascinating things that I've learned playing chess is that the way you play chess is kind of like the way you live your life.
