“What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.”
Ben Kingsley - Bruce Pandolfini

“I'm playing chess with my dad. Chess. It's a game, like Monopoly.”

Max Pomeranc - Josh Waitzkin

“- June Carver: Do you know what I like even more than chess?
- George Wade: Pokémon?”
Alicia Witt - June Carver
Hugh Grant - George Wade

“It’s an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it, I can dominate it. And it’s predictable. So, if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.”

Anya Taylor-Joy - Beth Harmon

“Let me tell you a story. Two men need an organ transplant, but there's only one organ. So they play a game. They each put a card in their pocket. Whoever can guess the other's card wins the organ.”
Anthony Chau-Sang Wong - SP Wong Chi Shing