Magnus Carlsen Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

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

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.

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.

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

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

I did take part in a couple of Vishy Anand's training camps. The experience has truly been invaluable. I saw from up close the level of preparation that I should be striving for.

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.

Well, I think, in large part, when I first began playing chess at seven years old, I was quite bad at it. I lost a lot of games when I first started.

A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.

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.

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.

My challenge when I came back was to face the young talent, dissect their games, and show them maybe that they needed to learn more about the game than just the money aspect.

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.

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

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