Chess may be the ordsprog

en Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
  George Steiner

en The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

en 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.
  Marcel Duchamp

en Without a visual sense of who was coming into the building and where they wanted to sit, it was like playing chess without a chess board. You could play chess with written notations in Excel, but it makes a big difference if you can actually see the demand and the revenue trends.

en Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.
  Raymond Chandler

en Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
  Raymond Chandler

en Scholastic chess is experiencing a real resurgence. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, when it comes to kids playing chess.

en Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory. The Commodore 64 is the computer that attracts demo programming. Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

en 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

en Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
  Boris Spassky

en We're going to play the most sophisticated chess game, chess match ever known to man, with a virus.

en 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

en In my elementary school, there was a teacher who told us about the chess club, and I just liked it from the very first moment. Besides, my father gave a chess board to my brother, and it was very pretty.

en The kids beg for chess. They'd rather have extra chess time than prizes.

en One science only will one genius fit; So vast is art, so narrow human wit


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