Chess Quotes
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I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.
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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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Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.
Garry Kasparov -
Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences.
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I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.
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Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition. Mostly, I'm interested in doing real sports.
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Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.
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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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'Tax Law is like the world's biggest chess game with all sorts of weird conundrums about ethics and civics and consent of the governed built in. For me, it's a bit like math. I have no talent for it but find it still erotically interesting.'
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I was lucky enough to attend schools where they were understanding about when I needed to go abroad to play chess. Of course, socially it is important to go to school and interact with people your own age.
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I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
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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
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I was a coin collector.I didn't know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was in uncirculated condition might be a panty dropper, and it turned out not to be. Then I stumbled into skateboarding, which kind of was cooler. But I wasn't aware of what was cool. My dad wasn't around so he couldn't shake me and say, 'Drop the coin collecting bit. It's not where you want to go.' So, that and the spelling bee and the chess, I think I had it figured out for myself.
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There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.
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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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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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I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
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It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
Garry Kasparov
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I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Garry Kasparov -
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
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I've never been one of those actors who plays chess with his career and goes, 'I'm going to wait now and see what project comes up that can move me to this or that level.' I take stuff as it comes, and it just so happens that it hasn't dried up yet, touch wood.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
