Chess Quotes
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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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I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.
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In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.
Garry Kasparov -
People knew about 110 years of chess history. Nowadays, nobody is able to tell you the name of the world champion of 2000.
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I play golf, and I play chess, and sometimes I go to the gym. On the airplane or between acts when I do the performance, I play Candy Crush to forget what happens around me, just to be alone, not thinking... You need to clear your brain.
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I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.
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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 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
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I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.
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All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.
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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.
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Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.
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If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.
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AI does not keep me up at night. Almost no one is working on conscious machines. Deep learning algorithms, or Google search, or Facebook personalization, or Siri or self driving cars or Watson, those have the same relationship to conscious machines as a toaster does to a chess-playing computer.
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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 -
Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth
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People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.
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At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk - games I find far less addictive than the spectacular games created for consoles these days. But, whenever I get the chance, I head over to my friend Kyri's house to play his PS3.
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Al Sharpton is not important. He's nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game.
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Even when the time control has been reached, there is one situation where you want to act as if it has not: when your position is absolutely lost.
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Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.
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Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.
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Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.
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Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
