Gurgenidze Chess Quotes

When had being an addict gotten so fucking hard? So exhausting? It had been so easy for so long; she had a steady supply, she kept to herself, nobody bothered her. Now she was constantly up to her ears in intrigue and complications, being torn in every direction but her own, all thanks to her need for those pills ~ Stacia Kane

Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929. ~ Mikhail Botvinnik

Books on the openings abound; nor are works on the end game wanting; but those on the middle game can be counted on the fingers of one hand. ~ Harry Golombek

A strong player requires only a few minutes of thought to get to the heart of the conflict. You see a solution immediately, and half an hour later merely convince yourself that your intuition has not deceived you. ~ David Bronstein

In earlier times, when there was a rage for physiognomy, a Gall might have dissected the brains of such chess champions to determine whether there was a special convolution in their gray matter, a kind of chess muscle or chess bump more strongly marked than in the skulls of others. And how excited such a physiognomist would ~ Stefan Zweig

I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a
coffee cup in a park for old men playing
chess or silly games of some sort. ~ Charles Bukowski

A sensation, hidden in the depths of my emotional memory, was suddenly revived: what if ... What if for me The Variation is not dead? If The Variation is alive?! ~ Lev Polugaevsky

Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination. ~ Garry Kasparov

Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It's exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless, growth is not constant and smooth. Erik Erikson quotes an aphorism to describe the formless forming of it. I ain't what I ought to be. I ain't what I'm going to be, but I'm not what I was. ~ Stella Chess

Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles. ~ Garry Kasparov

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently ~ Mark Twain

Chess is like war on a board ~ Bobby Fischer

Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals. ~ Perry DeAngelis

Everyone have a game, everyone is playing in his own game and his own game he is the king the others are the other figures from the chess. ~ Deyth Banger

Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they're going to know the truth when I do this book! ~ Bobby Fischer

Every month I look through some ten thousand games, so not as to miss any new ideas and trends. ~ Vladimir Kramnik

Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote. ~ Donald E. Westlake

Remy you're my king." I hug him hard. "There's no chess game for me without you. ~ Katy Evans

The game of chess is like the game of life. You move, then wait patiently until the other person moves....mgc ~ Michael Gray Calvert

I want to be an aggressive player;One who always find joy in every move. ~ Kenneth De Guzman

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization. ~ Samuel Reshevsky

Sienna Rivers, ex-nerd, undisputed reigning chess champion of the class of 09 and the proverbial all round wise-ass degenerate pain in your backside. ~ Ali Harper

Computers have changed the World of Chess. ~ Vladimir Kramnik

It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better. ~ Garry Kasparov

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. ~ Alexander Alekhine

Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn shop? ~ Steven Wright

Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life. ~ Frederick Lenz

I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha's mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move. ~ Patricia Briggs

Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport. ~ Paul C. Nagel

In 1948, while working for Bell Telephone Laboratories, he published a paper in the Bell System Technical Journal entitled "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" that not only introduced the word bit in print but established a field of study today known as information theory. Information theory is concerned with transmitting digital information in the presence of noise (which usually prevents all the information from getting through) and how to compensate for that. In 1949, he wrote the first article about programming a computer to play chess, and in 1952 he designed a mechanical mouse controlled by relays that could learn its way around a maze. Shannon was also well known at Bell Labs for riding a unicycle and juggling simultaneously. ~ Charles Petzold

Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something. ~ Dan Heisman

You have a friend named Bug?"

"Sure. Why wouldn't I?" Chess asked. "I have another friend who keeps telling me to call her Alice even though I give her way better names - which is even weirder if you ask me." He gave her a pointed look. ~ J.M. Sullivan

Like most conversations and most chess games, we all start off the same and we all end the same, with a brief moment of difference in between. Fertilization to fertilizer. Ashes to ashes. And we spark across the gap. ~ Brian Christian

The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets. ~ Robert Shea

The increase of knowledge has forced
the thinker to specialise, with the result that there is nobody capable to deal with civilisation as a whole. We are playing a game of chess in which nobody can see more than two or three squares at once, and so it has become impossible to form a coherent plan. ~ Aleister Crowley