Vladimir Putin Quotes

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.

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.

If the kids get a good grasp of what the main lessons are for chess after two or three years of staying with the game, then you've given them brain food and you've given them a skill that can last them a lifetime.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.

I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me.

Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning.

Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable.

Life is a kind of chess.

It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

Chess demands total concentration

Only when you have got a clear statement of what you want to achieve, do you ask yourself how you are going to achieve it. In the military we are taught never to go for a single answer, no matter how obvious that might be.

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

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life