“Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.”
G. K. Chesterton
“I failed to make the chess team because of my height.”
Woody Allen
“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate”
Isaac Asimov
“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”
Emo Philips
“Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.”
Terry Pratchett
“Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.”
Richard Dawkins
“I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.”
Soren Kierkegaard