Chess Quotes
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Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player.
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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
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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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As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.
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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 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 feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.
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Everything that Marvel does, it's a chess move. Nothing is by accident.
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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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Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.
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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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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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A chess tournament disguised as a circus.
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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 play my enemies like a game of chess
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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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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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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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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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Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.
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In chess, we say that the player with the initiative is obliged to attack, otherwise the initiative will be lost and the counterattack will likely be decisive.
Garry Kasparov -
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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The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.
