(183 quotes found)
“Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.”
Richard Dawkins
“The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
“"When I am white I win because I am white. When I am black I win because I am Bogoljubov”
Efim Bogoljubov
“Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.”
Seneca
“Life's too short for chess”
Henry James
“I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art -- and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.”
Marcel Duchamp
“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”
“Chess is life.”
Bobby Fischer
“I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.”
Dennis Miller
“Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.”
