Magnus Carlsen Quotes

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

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

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

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.

You can't win the chess match if you don't have enough pieces.

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

Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.

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

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

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

Poker is meant to be enjoyed.

I'm a pretty good chess player.

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

I think I've had more fun playing Varga than I've had for quite a number of years playing anything.

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

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.

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.

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

I love the chess game that I do on 'Suits.' I just love every bit of it and that I get to do it.

I like football very much. That's what I like. I play it quite well.

I'll bring in UNO, and we'll play that on set.

These guys are playing checkers. I'm out here playing chess. When they figure it out, it's too late.

I just love sports.