“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

“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

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”

Matthew Gray Gubler - Dr. Spencer Reid

“- Sgt. Deke Slater: I hate this stupid game.
- Que: That's only because you're so bad at it.”

Dylan Neal - Sgt. Deke Slater
Jennifer Tung - Que