Chess Quotes
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There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely. That's what I don't like.
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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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I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.
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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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Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.
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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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The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.
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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 is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
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I play my enemies like a game of chess
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Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities are tragic, and in crime drama you rarely see the pain of bereavement or any consequences. It's reduced to a chess game.
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Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.
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The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.
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Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.
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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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Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.
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I have to constantly work on my reflexes and hand-eye coordination. I do a lot of puzzles. I play chess.
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Let the perfectionist play postal.
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I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.
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In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats on your wedding. You were a great player, now be ready to lose 50 points'.
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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 -
Instead of critics reviewing my movies, now what they're really doing is trying to match wits with me. Every time they review my movies, it's like they want to play chess with the mastermind and show off every reference they can find, even when half of it is all of their own making.
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The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.. .I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
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I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.
