Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

quote by Viktor Korchnoi
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Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

quote by Vladimir Kramnik
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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

quote by Raymond Chandler
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Profit Wars Planned Continually

somewhere in various locations
shifting across chess board earth
skull and crossbones wars rage

poem by Terence George Craddock
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The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.

quote by Boris Spassky
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For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

quote by Vladimir Kramnik
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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

quote by Soren Kierkegaard
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The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

quote by Boris Spassky
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It's more easy to win a chess game in five minutes than it is to talk about Russia's problems in 15 minutes.

Garry Kasparov in Baltic Development Forum, Hamburg (13 September 2004)
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I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.

quote by Anatoly Karpov
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I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

quote by Garry Kasparov
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Ukraine is now on the front line of the war — global war — of freedom against tyranny. The war the free world didn't want to admit existed. It cannot be ignored any longer. Brave Ukrainians are fighting like hell and dying right now to remind us not to take liberty for granted. Putin, like every dictator before him, underestimated the free will of free people. They deserve every weapon, every resource to win this war. Because they're fighting for us. Not only for the whole and free Ukraine. ... This is not chess. This is not a battle between opposite colors, but of opposite values. Freedom, life and love versus tyranny, death and hatred. This is not chess. But sometimes things are black and white. Sometimes you have to fight for what you believe. Or you lose it. This is not chess. There are no draws, no compromises in our battle with true evil. It's win or lose. And so we must fight. And so we must win. Slava Ukraini! Glory to Ukraine. Glory to freedom.

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

quote by Wilhelm Steinitz
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Slow Time Undermine's Flow's Climb

Slow beats heart's flow, forgets dreams' themes once sought
Too soon faith fails, spins cobweb wraiths, sins caught
In Time's checkmate matrix grid lock. Once bold
Music wild, soul's passion dims, defiled, short-sold.
Existence pales, stales, falls, love's tales abort.

(24 May 2012)

poem by Jonathan Robin
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A man of high principles is someone who can watch a chess game without passing comment.

Chinese proverbs
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Chess Like That? (Mumbai 2008)

Just another round of the chess game
Rooks and bishops fall dead on the board

Apolitical horses have gone lame
As the dead count to a hundred soared

Black and white squares are now bloody red
Grieve for the pawns who've been blown up dead

Regroup, restart, this political game
Plot a quick 'rechauffe' of the same

And then fix a duel of nuclear kings-
For aren't your motives, just a chess thing?

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(Written December 10,2008 Tarlac City Philippines)

poem by Cynthia Buhain-Baello
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The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

quote by Viktor Korchnoi
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0042 For Billy Collins

Chess is more than dancing queens,
hockey's even played on ice;
a little difficulty too
gives poetry an extra spice.

poem by Michael Shepherd
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Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.

quote by Ron Livingston
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After A Chess Game....

it is said
that after each chess game
the king and pawn
are put always in the
same box,

in truth
does it really matter?

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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