The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master
Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together.
It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the centre and, in addition, to the opening of a file for the rook.
There just isn't enough televised Chess
To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.
It is a well known phenomenon that the same amateur who can conduct the middle game quite creditably, is usually perfectly helpless in the end game. One of the principal requisites of good chess is the ability to treat both the middle and end game equally well.
With a name like that, he must be Catholic, right?
Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.
Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.
Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position
I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.
(3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM. . . ?'. . . Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement by study of the original text.
He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate in two moves. ' Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.
In so-called communist Romania, chess was held in high esteem, even if our champions were weaker than the Soviets. This game, this "sport of the mind," was at the time a better way to establish your reputation than literature.
It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.
Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.
Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!
If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.
Chess is mental torture.
Chess and theatre often lead to madness.