Alexander Morozevich Quotes
A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess is art" is already inappropriate. The purpose of modern chess is to reach a result.
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Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
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There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
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Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
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You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
Garry Kasparov -
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.
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In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.
Garry Kasparov -
Chess was treated by the Soviet authorities as a very important and useful ideological tool to demonstrate the intellectual superiority of the Soviet communist regime over the decadent West.
Garry Kasparov -
Even a dickhead would do a better job than Ilyumzhinov. The chaos in the chess world is caused by 'leaders' who are unable to do their job properly.
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I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
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It would be three-dimensional chess with a million billion squares and a million pieces, and with the rules changing ever move.
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Therefore only an utterly senseless person can fail to know that our characters are the result of our conduct.
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Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
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Chess is life.
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I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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I did some mistakes; I accept that - I always accept my mistakes. For sure, we are looking forward to improve, to deliver my best as always.
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Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
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I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.
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A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess is art" is already inappropriate. The purpose of modern chess is to reach a result.
