Chess is mental torture.
My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.
A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality.
It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
I'm a pretty good chess player.
I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'
Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.
All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.
I think death is the aesthetic part of chess, seeing your opponent's army fall. Producing a sacrifice in order to mate is the aesthetic part of it. It's a beautiful, bloodless war.
I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.
All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
You can't win the chess match if you don't have enough pieces.
