Chess quotes
33 chess quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: The Shawshank Redemption
- From the TV Series: Criminal Minds
“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
- From the TV Series: The Queen's Gambit
“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.”
- From the movie: Fresh
- From the movie: xXx: State of the Union
“I don't know what's more pathetic - a man that plays chess with himself, or a man that doesn't see he's already lost.”
- From the movie: Blazing Saddles
- From the movie: Pawn Sacrifice
- From the movie: History of the World, Part I
- From the movie: Pawn Sacrifice
“Chess is basically a search for truth, right?”
- From the movie: Straw Dogs
“- David Sumner: Baby. You don't have to learn chess to please me.
- Amy Sumner: I'm not learning chess to please you, baby. I'm learning so I can kick your ass.” - From the movie: The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
“- Gen. Sepp Dietrich: [playing chess] Checkmate.
- Schmidt: Congratulations, Herr General.
- Gen. Sepp Dietrich: Nothing has changed, my dear Schmidt. All the years you have been with me, I cannot remember the last time you won the game. You must realize by now I am a master of strategy. There is no one in the Fatherland who has furthered the...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
“- Dulcy: I wouldn't mind learning chess.
- Leopold: I feel it would be tame for you.
- Dulcy: I like the way the stallions look.
- Leopold: They're called knights. That's a knight. Not a stallion.” - From the movie: Searching for Bobby Fischer
“He complained about the TV cameras, about the lighting, about the table and chairs, and the contrast of the squares on the board. His hotel room, he said, had too nice a view. None of this has anything to do with chess of course. But maybe it did. If he won, he'd be the first American world champion in history. If he lost, he'd just be another...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Knight Moves
- From the movie: Bad Company
“I'm going to do this. Then you're going to do this. Then I'm going to do this. Now you're going to want to do this, but I'm going to do this. And when you're thinking about doing this, I'm going to do this. And then the game is over. So what say you give me twenty dollars and we save twenty minutes?”
- From the movie: Traitor
“In chess and in war the key to winning is to anticipate what your opponent will do in advance. Think two moves ahead. The art of asymmetrical warfare is less about inflicting damage than provoking a response.”
- From the movie: Spice World
“- Scary Spice: I'll move that fairground horse to there. Sort that out!
- Ginger Spice: You can't do that!
- Scary Spice: Says who?
- Ginger Spice: Says Mr. Chess! It's been in the rules for thousands of years!
- Scary Spice: Well I'm gonna break the rules and set this little fairground horse free amonst all these little square fields, like that.” - From the movie: Knight Moves
- From the movie: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
“- Ivana: Do you know how we keep warm in Russia?
- Austin: I can guess, baby.
- Ivana: We play chess.
- Austin: I guessed wrong.” - From the movie: Fresh
“You're playing each piece like losing it hurts. This ain't checkers. You want my king, you got to come get my king. All these other pieces are just the means to do it.”
- From the movie: Born Killers
“Chess is perfect.”
- From the movie: The Luzhin Defence
- From the movie: Searching for Bobby Fischer
“I'm playing chess with my dad. Chess. It's a game, like Monopoly.”
- From the movie: Bad Company
“You didn't know chess was a contact sport, did'ja.”
- From the movie: Two Weeks Notice
“- June Carver: Do you know what I like even more than chess?
- George Wade: Pokémon?”
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