"Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic"

"Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along"

"Chess is not for timid souls"

"I failed to make the chess team because of my height"

"I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved"

"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing"

"Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways"

"I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country"

"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"

"Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters"

"Chess is not only knowledge and logic"