Boris Spassky Quotes

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.

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.

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.

In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.

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

The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.

Like MCs, each chess player has his own style: how he likes to open, when he likes to attack. Just like we face off with each other lyrically, we challenge each other's minds on the chessboard. Sharpen each other's swords.

When you watch chess, you don't see the four hours that the player spends preparing for a match ahead of time.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner.

I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.

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

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.

I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.

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

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

I'm a pretty good chess player.