Vladimir Kramnik Quotes

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

Chess is a cold bath for the mind

To make headway, improve your head.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise.

Your mind is just like your body. It's a muscle you can train and get better at.

Studies of social games, puzzle games, and brain-training games have shown they have little effect on the brain despite often being marketed as improving memory and reaction speeds.

Playing chess can make you a better poker player because it forces you to think several moves ahead. That kind of intense mental exercise develops a deeper level of thinking than is typically encountered when playing poker.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

Chess demands total concentration

Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice

I play chess about four hours a day in training camp. You have to decide what move to use, or what combination of moves. I think less when I box because the reaction time is a lot quicker, but some people call me the chess boxer because they say I think too much in the ring. I take my time and they don't see the action they want. Some boxers just go in there and just throw punches and hope to win.

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

If you're going to train your body, it would be a really good thing to also train your brain.

When you engage your brain, it just keeps getting fatter and richer and wonderful.

I have to be smarter than my opponents. I have to figure out their styles in the ring. I have to be three or four steps ahead of them. So my mind has to be sharp.

You play more games, you get more maturity, and you get smarter.

Talking about smart thinking, The British-made 'Brain Training Podcast' is a brief daily workout for the mind that could easily get addictive.

I've been playing hand-held video games since 1995. Its my way of training my brain.

I speak four languages and read a great deal, so I do as much working out on the brain as I do on the body.

Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way.

I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person...as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read.

Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.