Chess Quotes
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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 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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If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.
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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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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 is only a recreation and not an occupation.
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Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.
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Capablanca wanted to change the rules already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It’s a terrible game now. Very uncreative.
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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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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 -
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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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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People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.
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No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness
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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 -
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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I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.
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Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth
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Let the perfectionist play postal.
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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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Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.
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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.
