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I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation.
Viswanathan Anand
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Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
Magnus Carlsen
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My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.
Viswanathan Anand
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The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
Thomas Huxley
I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good.
Timothy Dalton
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.


Felix Frankfurter
Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.
Ron Livingston
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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret Thatcher
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Too many people get lost in the game of having a good time and being naive about things.


Steve Brown
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There are no black and white, good or bad characters in 'Game Of Thrones,' but Joffrey was an exception. Just pure evil.
Sophie Turner
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It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.


Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.
Madeleine Albright
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I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable.


Jeremy Clarkson
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The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.
Jane Goodall
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I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
Bobby Fischer
When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.
Michael Birch
I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.
Vladimir Kramnik
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Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.
Al Leiter
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My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.


Nomar Garciaparra
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We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.


David Blaine
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