Chess Quotes
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Chess is a natural cerebral high.
Walter Browne -
You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its place as the par excellence of intellectual activity. Smart people in search of a challenging board game might try a game called Go.
Hans Berliner
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The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.
Howard Staunton -
Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality.
David Bronstein -
Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf
Cecil Purdy -
Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have been around during the fervor of the match in Reykjavik and the rise of Bobby Fischer, so those two things conspired to pique my interest.
Edward Zwick -
Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
Nigel Short -
Every month I look through some ten thousand games, so not as to miss any new ideas and trends.
Vladimir Kramnik
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Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.
Viswanathan Anand -
I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.
Nigel Short -
I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.
Viswanathan Anand -
Chess is the touchstone of intellect.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Chess is a fathead and feudal game.
Georges Perec -
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the people who really enjoy chess are the dubs and the duffers, experts who have resigned their ambitions, those who play only for pastime, and, of course, the great fraternity of the kibbitzers.
Alfred Kreymborg
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In this respect, I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry [Kasparov]. With his very emotive body language at the [chess]board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.
Vladimir Kramnik -
I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.
Vladimir Kramnik -
Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.
Eloisa James -
Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly.
Ashot Nadanian -
Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.
Viswanathan Anand -
One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.
Scarlett Thomas
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Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.
Edmar Mednis -
The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward.
Viswanathan Anand -
Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.
Vladimir Putin -
Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.
Christopher Bollen