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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

Me Computers Boxing Beat Kick

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

Game Feel Opponent Cannot

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Computers Champions Human Top

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

Funny Team Height Make Because

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

Game End Problem Possible

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

Richard Dawkins

World Humanity Look Computers

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

You Fate Late Too Late

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Young Playing Out Guys Checkers

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

Marriage Water You Game

Everything that Marvel does, it's a chess move. Nothing is by accident.

Nothing Everything Accident Move

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In chess, there are some extremely beautiful things in the domain of movement, but not in the visual domain. It's the imagining of the movement or of the gesture that makes the beauty in this case.

Beautiful Beauty Beautiful Things

A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality.

Game Drawing Reality Plastic

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.

Beauty Art I Am More

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

Eating Movement Another Pieces

I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.

Enthusiasm Years Forty Little

I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun.

Home Colleagues People Shoes

There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth.

Me Tree Woman Night

I am very lucky in my team. They sit opposite me, and I get to see them every day sitting there staring at the seating chart, not doing much. It is almost like a chess game.

Day Me I Am Game

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

You Mind Drawing Ahead

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.

Aung San Suu Kyi

You Game Look Process

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

Madeleine Albright

Time People Together Game

There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely. That's what I don't like.

Dress Game Like Class

Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.

Me Ego Hard Like

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

Myself Science Game Like

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