Geoffrey Boycott

I'd love to see pitches start very dry all over the world, which is good for batting but means there will be turn - a cricket match without spinners is like a chess match without two important pieces - a less interesting game.

British Athlete

Hikaru Nakamura

It's certainly an honor to have kids who are looking up to me, but at the same time, I'm just trying to do what I can to raise the profile of chess.

Japanese Celebrity

Jason Reynolds

The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.

American Author

John Ortberg

Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.

American Clergyman

Garry Kasparov

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.

Celebrity

Anish Giri

Top players are privileged in the chess world.

Dutch Celebrity

Anatoly Karpov

Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

Russian Celebrity

Russell Crowe

I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.

Australian Actor

Henry James Byron

English Dramatist

Bobby Fischer

American Celebrity

Chess is seen as a strategic and intellectual game, often associated with intelligence and critical thinking.

Intellectual Game

Chess has a rich history and is often featured in literature and films as a symbol of complex thinking.

Cultural Icon

Chess competitions are taken very seriously, with professional players and international tournaments.

Competitive Sport

Chess grass can be a nuisance in agriculture, implying unwanted growth that farmers work to control.

Agricultural Nuisance

Chess refers to a specific type of weedy grass, not commonly known outside of agricultural contexts.

Lesser-Known Grass

The term 'chess' in this context is technical and may not be recognized in general conversation.

Technical Term

 So we use different techniques to be able to look ahead. And some of these techniques include chunking, which means taking a group, a chess position, and seeing what possibilities can come from just that group; or pattern recognition, which is just going over a lot of positions that look very similarly and extrapolating truths from that;

Working backward to...

 Somewhere in your future, there will be a robot in your life. If not in yours, your children's lives. And I want these robots to be more fluent, more engaging, more graceful than currently they seem to be. And for that I think maybe robots need to be less like chess players and more like stage actors and more like musicians.

Robots with "soul" PIPE Guy...

 How would you want to enhance a human body? Where is it ethical to enhance a human body and where is it not ethical to enhance a human body? And all of a sudden, what we're doing is we've got this multidimensional chess board where we can change human genetics by using viruses to attack things like AIDS,

What will humans look...

 the number of configurations that the board can be in is essentially infinite. There are actually more possibilities than there are atoms in the universe. So what that means is, you're never going to be able to build a computer to win at the game of Go the way chess was approached, for example,

How we'll earn money in...

 after sacrificing his queen and both rooks. But the emergence of formal competitive play in the late 19th century meant that strategic calculation would eventually trump dramatic flair. And with the rise of international competition, chess took on a new geopolitical importance.

A brief history of chess...

 I wasn't bent on becoming the first black Grandmaster I wanted to become a grandmaster that's what mattered I was a fan of all these great players through history and the word Grandmaster just resonates no matter where you are in the world but in chess it's just you know

Two Champions, One...

 moral precepts that admit of no exceptions. So, for instance, if it's really wrong to lie, it must always be wrong to lie, and if you can find an exception, well then there's no such thing as moral truth. Why would we think this? Consider, by analogy, the game of chess.

Science can answer moral...

 just watch this care raiding a wheelie bin it's using its brain as a chess player dance to work out a sequence of moves which logs need to be shifted in what order to allow it to open the bin

Sneaky Kea Raids A...

 chess so obviously I was very motivated to learn the game in the beginning it was only a game for me but it became gradually competitive it suited very much to my character as from a very

Giving checkmate is...

 I lost that game. And I couldn't help wondering, might it be invincible? Was my beloved game of chess over? These were human doubts, human fears,