Magnus Carlsen Quotes

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.

The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me.

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.

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.

For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.

Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have been around during the fervor of the match in Reykjavik and the rise of Bobby Fischer, so those two things conspired to pique my interest.

I play a lot of chess, just to a bog-average level. But I find it stimulates your mind with all the combinations of different moves.

I barely know what my plans are for tomorrow, but I hope chess will remain a major part of my life.

Online chess is very popular and cool, don't get me wrong, but it is a different discipline.

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.

My mother is Russian and father Nepalese, so we always had a chess board at home. Chess is part of the culture in both Russia and Nepal.

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

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

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.

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

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.

I think there's a misconception that chess players are all total nerds. Well, I guess they are.

The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [...] Today's game was provided by Garry.

Well I just so happened to bump into a chess book in the library at school and I didn't know that there were books on chess and so I take this book out and I'm like this is going to be cool, I'm going to whoop on this guy now, so I studied the book and I go back and the guy crushes me again.

Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.

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.

My way of playing is very different and Karpov plays very differently as well.