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There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

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

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

Charles Dudley Warner

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is not for timid souls.

Wilhelm Steinitz

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.