All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Chess is life.
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble.
I play football like chess. You have to think a lot and anticipate what could happen after you make your move.
In chess, there are some extremely beautiful things in the domain of movement, but not in the visual domain. It's the imagining of the movement or of the gesture that makes the beauty in this case.
Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.
I'm a pretty good chess player.
Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
Chess is not only knowledge and logic.
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
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