Henry Campbell-Bannerman Quotes

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me.

I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.

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

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.

Chess is one long regret.

Chess will always be the master of us all.

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.

Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.

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

Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

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

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.

I see myself used in terms of reading mismatches. If it's small, go inside. If it's big, come outside. And if it's in between, then work him, make him think you're going outside, go back inside. Just play chess.

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 started chess around the age of seven. I was inspired by the game, but soon legends like Kasparov, Karpov, Fischer, Anand and many other world champions captivated me.

If you talk to some of the older players, they definitely say they see beauty in certain games. In my case, there are certain times when I think, 'Wow, that's so amazing, chess is so full of ideas.' But most of the time I tend to be much more pragmatic about it, as opposed to thinking about it as art or something exquisite.

Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)

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.

Chess demands total concentration

Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.