Chess Match Quotes

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

tennis is a 100-mph chess match.

Watching the season for me is about watching the chess matches.

Little boys are still playing the game [baseball], more little girls are playing, and it is still the world's most interesting game, a duel, a chess match, a foot race, a gymnastics exhibition, that rare opportunity for individuals to be recognized within a group effort.

I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.

Marriage is like a chess match is initiated and the board expands over time until it takes up all of a life.

Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that computer superiority over humans in chess had always been just a matter of time.

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this.

I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.

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

I like the little chess match of how people move through space. I'm not comparing myself to Michelangelo with this analogy, but he said when he sculpts it's like finding the sculpture within. It feels that way when you are with actors, too. There's a natural way to do this with a natural language that flows and feels like real people talking. And you've just got to find it. So I enjoy that part of the process.

Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature.