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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Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities are tragic, and in crime drama you rarely see the pain of bereavement or any consequences. It's reduced to a chess game.
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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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He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leas to standstill or to anarchy.
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He's doing nothing different except not going to work. His life is still the same.
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Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.
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It has nothing to do with any kind of exchange or sale [of Kuril island to Japan]. It is about the search for a solution when neither party would be at a disadvantage, when neither party would perceive itself as conquered or defeated.
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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.
