Viswanathan Anand Quotes

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

We are studying the opponent all the time and it is maybe about chess and finding the right move at the right moment and that makes this so interesting.

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

When you first start playing, that's your aim obviously, to win the world title.

The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish.

Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.

Playing black, I put great stake in the Ruy Lopez: I liked it, feel it, and understand it; in matches with Hjartarson and Timman it served me well. - on preparing for World Championship versus Garry Kasparov

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

Chess is mental torture.

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

You can't win the chess match if you don't have enough pieces.

For the moment, I am more focused on classical chess rather than rapid and blitz, as I am hoping to make my move in the classical World championship cycle.

Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.

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 usually never stay at the board after a game. Especially against Spassky. I made a dumb suggestion and he refuted it instantly! I know I'm going to have to play him some day and it was really stupid to look like such a jerk in front of him.

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all.

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.