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This is like a chess match for me. I'm trying to understand who likes me and who doesn't because they won't tell you. A lot of guys have stats to throw around. Auburn isn't pass-oriented. We have to show up (to scouts) in other ways. I'm not nervous or anything, but there's a lot of anticipation. (Quote by - Anthony Mix)

The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature and the player on the other side is hidden from us. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)

Excellence at Chess is one mark of a scheming mind. (Quote by - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused. (Quote by - Rudolph Spielmann)

Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life. (Quote by - Edward Morgan Foster)

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents. (Quote by - Alexander Alekhine)

I s just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something. (Quote by - Bobby Fischer)

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)

Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life. (Quote by - Martin Dansky)

It's a chess match every time we play them. (Quote by - Chris Lowery)

It is not enough to be a good player... you must also play well. (Quote by - Siegbert Tarrasch)

Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to learn to be able to do. (Quote by - Maurice Ashley)

It's almost like a little chess match out there. . . . When you win, it's fun. When you lose, it's not so much fun. (Quote by - Curtis Joseph)

When it comes to fully understanding how to strategically move all the pieces on the marketing and distribution chess board on a worldwide basis, Jeff Blake is always thinking two moves ahead and that gives Sony a true competitive edge. He is the studio's secret weapon and while he would be the first to credit his fantastic sales and marketing team, there are few executives here that deserve more credit for our successes during the past several years than Jeff. (Quote by - Amy Pascal)

It's a chess game out there. For the coaching staff, sending and picking signs is the best part of the game. It becomes a cat-and-mouse game between you and the other guy. (Quote by - Gary Hatch)

All Chess players should have a hobby. (Quote by - Savielly Tartakower)

Without error there can be no brilliancy. (Quote by - Emanuel Lasker)

What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game. (Quote by - Siegbert Tarrasch)

Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!. (Quote by - Aaron Nimzowitsch)

Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists. (Quote by - Marcel Duchamp)

The isolated Pawn casts gloom over the entire chessboard. (Quote by - Aaron Nimzovich)

Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it. (Quote by - Judith Polgar)

The permutations and combinations are endless. It's like a game of three-dimensional chess. (Quote by - Sherry Bebitch Jeffe)

It was like a three-level chess game. (Quote by - Larry Wilder)

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