Viktor Korchnoi Quotes
It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.
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Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.
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I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
Garry Kasparov -
Crossword puzzles, Sudoku... I'm good at all those things. It's not daily, but I'll do stuff on the airplane. I love playing chess. It's my favorite game.
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I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.
Garry Kasparov -
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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My favorite moment was in Game 6 when Bill Walton tapped a missed Sixers shot toward the backcourt and Johnny Davis ran it down as the clock expired. We were NBA champions!
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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 -
Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.
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It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
Garry Kasparov -
When I'm training, I cater a little bit to my opponents.
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One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.
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The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.
Garry Kasparov -
In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.
Garry Kasparov
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Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.
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Cruelty is not a literary value.
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I even tried to usher her into this century by explaining that wearing rainbows didn’t automatically mean a person was gay. The Lucky Charms leprechaun was not necessarily a homosexual. The Care Bear with the rainbow on his tummy did not have a life partner. He didn’t even have genitals.
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I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.
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It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.
