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It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.
Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience.
In my free time, I love to catch up with tennis, swimming, travelling, and chess.
Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.
I don't know what I am going to play, so how can he know what I am going to play!
It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.
Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.
Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.
Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.
I see my own style as being a symbiosis of the styles of Alekhine, Tal and Fischer.
It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position
The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.
I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.
The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.
Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth
Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards.
There is luck in chess. My opponent was lucky that he was playing against an idiot.
I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'
Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline
Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters.
Here in Italy, football is more like a chess game. You have to think about every move.
Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever
I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.
I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings
Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.
Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life
For surely of all the drugs in the world, Chess must be the most permanently pleasurable
My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.
As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.
When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at.
Don't worry about your rating, work on your playing strength and your rating will follow.
I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.
Playing without a concurrent critical review of one's skills will simply get you nowhere.
Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.
Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.
Chess is not something that drives people mad; it is something that keeps mad people sane.
Chess is a great game. It's a lot of fun, but sometimes you wonder what else is out there.
Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived
The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed according to the sacrifices it contains.
Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance
It's easy to reach a certain level with chess, but it's very hard to reach the next level.
Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
I believe that the best style is a universal one, tactical and positional at the same time.
With or without the title, Bobby Fischer was unquestionably the greatest player of his time