"Chess is mental torture"

"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"

"The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time"

"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 the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency"

"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency"

"It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment"

"Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way"