Chess Quotes
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Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these four people (Antoshion and three other official 'minders') sent along to supervise us? With their meagre experience, all that thay did was interfere, more than ever before. And when they were needed, they weren't to be found.
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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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The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.
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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.
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Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.
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To obey a rule, to make a report, to give an order, to play a game of chess, are customs (uses, institutions)
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If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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I remember being with a girlfriend who asked me to look over some chess openings with her. I instantly fell asleep. I found that I could always take a nap in any situation by just looking at some opening variation - my eyes would shut right away.
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The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.
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People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.
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The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.
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Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.
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I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun.
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In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.
Garry Kasparov -
You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.
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Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.
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There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might have relegated him to a minor career.
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In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.
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All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.
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No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness
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The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
