“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
“I failed to make the chess team because of my height.”
Woody Allen
“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”
Emo Philips
“Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.”
G. K. Chesterton
“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate”
Isaac Asimov
“Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time”
George Bernard Shaw
“In life, as in chess, forethought wins.”
Charles Buxton