C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.”
“Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook.”
“Chess is for everybody.”
“Chess is imagination.”
“Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality.”
Source: 200 Open Games
“Chess is intellectual gymnastics.”
“Chess is life and every game is like a new life.”
“Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles”
“Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely.”
Source: The World's Great Chess Games
“Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.”
“Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.”
“Chess is like war on a board”
“Chess is mental torture.”
“Chess is more than a game or a mental training. It is a distinct attainment. I have always regarded the playing of chess and the accomplishment of a good game as an art, and something to be admired no less than an artist's canvas or the product of a sculptor's chisel. Chess is a mental diversion rather than a game. It is both artistic and scientific.”
“Chess is most certainly not my life.”
“Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.”
“Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary.”
“Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.”
“Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists”
“Chess is not dominoes”
“Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.”
“Chess is not for the timid.”
Source: 1000 best short games of chess: a treasury of masterpieces in miniature
“Chess is not for timid souls.”
“Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly.”
“Chess is not only knowledge and logic”
“Chess is not something that drives people mad; it is something that keeps mad people sane.”
“Chess is one long regret.”
Source: Happy stories, just to laugh at
“Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance”
“Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and soul of human existence-then why bother existing? to produce human art a computer would have to find, feel, absorb reality to the point it is overcome, to the point it sobs for release. A computer perhaps could replicate every possibility but could never transfer the energy art requires to exist in the first place.”
“Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.”
“Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.”
“Chess is similar to boxing. You need to develop a strategy, and you need to think two or three steps ahead about what your opponent is doing. You have to be smart. But what’s the difference between chess and boxing? In chess, nobody is an expert, but everybody plays. In boxing everybody is an expert, but nobody fights.”
“Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost.”
“Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game.”
“Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money”
Source: The chess player: by George Walker; to which are added the three games played at one and the same time by Philidor; sixty openings, mates and situations, by W. S. Kenny, with remarks, anecdotes, &c. &c., and an explanation of the round chess board
“Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.”
“Chess is the art of analysis.”
Source: Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games
“Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.”
“Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.”
“Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.”
“Chess is the only game greater than its players.”
“Chess is the touchstone of intellect.”
“Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it”
“Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.”
“Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.”
“Chess is, above all, a fight.”
“Chess is, in essence, a game for children. Computers have exacerbated the trends towards youth because they now have an immensely powerful tool at their disposal and can absorb vast amounts of information extremely quickly.”
“Chess isn't always competitive. Chess can also be beautiful.”
Source: The Queen's Gambit
“Chess isn't a game of speed, it is a game of speech through actions”
“Chess isn't football or hockey.”