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I play a lot of chess, just to a bog-average level. But I find it stimulates your mind with all the combinations of different moves.
We don't really know how the game was invented, though there are suspicions. As soon as we discover the culprits, we'll let you know
Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.
Being a young parent, you can play cricket, football, and I can play chess with my son. In fact, he plays the piano better than I do.
Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.
If you are serious about being a professional chess player, do know what your parents think and what their expectations are from you.
One can imagine a world without essays. It would be a little poorer, of course, like a world without chess, but one could live in it.
India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.
Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?
Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it.
No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.
My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.
Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.
Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't really understand them.
My mother is Russian and father Nepalese, so we always had a chess board at home. Chess is part of the culture in both Russia and Nepal.
I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss.
It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.
Ultimately chess is just chess - not the best thing in the world and not the worst thing in the world, but there is nothing quite like it.
I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
I find the game mentally challenging and really enjoy the chess match that occurs every week between the offense and the opposing defense.
That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some.
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.
Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.
Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to stop him
I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.
Someone once described being a Housewife to me as being one big chess game, and in many ways, I guess it is for some people, but not for me.
19.Rxc7N. There comes the novetly! [sic] Actually, the impression I had is that both players had more or less analyzed the rest of the game.
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.
Chess is a great game. No matter how good one is, there is always somebody better. No matter how bad one is, there is always somebody worse.
We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.
The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession
Each outing is its own game. You roll on your game plan. It is a different chess match each time you go out there. I just try to be prepared.
To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.
The Ruy Lopez occupied a constant place in my opening repertoire. In it is reflected the classical interpretation of the problem of the centre.
When I saw 'Chess' in London, I thought it was horrible. It was so static. People were coming down front and just facing the audience, singing.
In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated.
Once we have chosen the right formation in the centre we have created opportunities for our pieces and laid the foundation of subsequent victory.
Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique.
I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love.
Actually, one of the fascinating things that I've learned playing chess is that the way you play chess is kind of like the way you live your life.
Unless a player has an 'understanding chess' rating of at least 2400, the amount of significant knowledge that he can impart on others is limited.
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.
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.
Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.
I do not know to whom the aphorism 'There are no sound studies, only ones that haven't been busted yet' belongs, but it has measure of truth in it.
It's certainly an honor to have kids who are looking up to me, but at the same time, I'm just trying to do what I can to raise the profile of chess.
Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.