#chess

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this. ↗

— John Harsanyi

#chess #competitors #decades #games #haven

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make. ↗

— David Hockney

#chess #drawing #eventually #like #make

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#daring #ideas #games

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind. ↗

— Adolf Anderssen

#gymnasium #mind

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#been #bring #certainly #chess #down

I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that. ↗

— David Bailey

#children #did #ever #father #got

You are absolutely beautiful," Anne said. "But if you see yourself, you'll want to pin your hair back like a shepherdess in a bad play." (Eleanor) "Are you saying that I normally look as if I'm tending sheep? With straw in my hair? As if I might yodel? ↗

— Eloisa James

#historical-romance #beauty

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#advertising agency #agency #chess #elaborate #human

I don't play chess with my life, ya' know. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#i #know #life #my life #play

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

#chess #described #eating #movement #pieces