Chess Quotes
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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 -
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.
Bobby Fischer
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The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
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.
Viktor Korchnoi -
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.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.
Alexandra Kosteniuk -
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.
Edmar Mednis -
There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning.
Maurice Ashley
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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.
Viktor Korchnoi -
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.
Ramez Naam -
No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness
Viktor Korchnoi -
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
Viktor Korchnoi -
Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.
Vladimir Kramnik -
Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.
Vladimir Lenin
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Let the perfectionist play postal.
Yasser Seirawan -
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.
Larry Fitzgerald -
People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
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 -
I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go Wildcats), babysitter, photojournalist, drill team girl, emo kid - and not one of them defined me, but every single one will always play a part in who I am.
Debby Ryan -
Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth
Yasser Seirawan
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Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.
Carol Mann -
In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters.
Tyler Cowen -
Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.
Viktor Korchnoi