Chess Quotes
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I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.
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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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With his death, we have lost a very great chess genius whose like we'll never see again.
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The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.
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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, 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 -
The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.
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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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The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
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A chess tournament disguised as a circus.
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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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I play my enemies like a game of chess
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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
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The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.
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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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If you never give up and you strive hard and focus on every move like a chess game, you will make it. I believe that wholeheartedly.
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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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Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.
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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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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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The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.
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I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It's not like I'm trying to make the right chess move. It's more just that personal thing where you get connected to something for so long and then you want to do something that's in opposition to that.
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I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.
