Anish Giri Quotes

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.

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

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

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

Professional players work almost every day, for hours on end, and the emphasis is on the word 'work.' It can be with a partner or it can be alone, but professional chess is always a pursuit of something new and surprising.

I'm a pretty good chess player.

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

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

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.

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

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 started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.

When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.

For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.

I think for me the main goal that I have, or at least what I really aspire to, is to raise the level of 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.

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.

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.

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

I don't know if people know this but I am pretty good at chess. I was always on the chess team at school when I was younger.

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.

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

On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.

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