Chess Quotes
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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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Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.
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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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I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.
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The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
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 place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game.
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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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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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In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.
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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Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.
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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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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 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 play my enemies like a game of chess
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I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.
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The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.
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The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.
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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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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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The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.
