Chess quotes

“- Bonnie: No. It'd kill him not to play in the park. He loves it.
- Bruce Pandolfini: It just makes my job harder.
- Bonnie: Then your job's harder.”

Joan Allen - Bonnie Waitzkin
Ben Kingsley - Bruce Pandolfini

“- Stanley Motss: I bet you're great at chess.
- Conrad Brean: I would be if I could remember how all the pieces moved.”
Dustin Hoffman - Stanley Motss
Robert De Niro - Conrad Brean

“- 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

“- Sam: Chess ain't fun, boy, how many times do I gotta tell you that? Don't you listen to a word I say?
- Fresh: Maybe if I seen you more...
- Sam: Well you don't, so you be well served to retain some of the knowledge I'm imparting to you, rather than giving me all this hard ass street attitude bullshit.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Sam
Sean Nelson - Fresh

- Danskin: I hate jailbird chess. I hate the style. Like a goddamn little tweety bird. "Ooh, here's a move!" It's fucking degrading.
- Smitty: Plenty of guys belt you when they lose. Fucking Danskin, he wins and he hits you!
Richard Masur - Danskin
Ray Sharkey - Smitty

“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

“- Bruce Pandolfini: Your son creates like Fischer. He sees like him, inside.
- Fred: You can tell this by watching him play some drunks in the park?
- Bruce Pandolfini: Yes. You want to know what I want. I'll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.”

Ben Kingsley - Bruce Pandolfini
Joe Mantegna - Fred Waitzkin

“- Bruce Pandolfini: Bobby Fischer held the world in contempt.
- Josh Waitzkin: Well, I'm not him.
- Bruce Pandolfini: You're telling me.”
Ben Kingsley - Bruce Pandolfini
Max Pomeranc - Josh Waitzkin