Denis Diderot Quotes

You can only get good at Chess if you love the game

I love cold, rainy weather.

There is technology where you can watch the match live online and also on TV. If people understood the game, I'm sure we would have a lot of chess fans by now.

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.

With chess it was almost this palpable electricity that I felt. You're totally in control of your own fate. There's no luck factor. It's you and the pieces.

It's very encouraging that the game of chess is growing in the U.S. and is becoming more popular.

In chess, everyone's accepted. That's what's great about it. You can be a little bit different. You can be an oddball.

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

To play with correctness and skill the ends of games, is an important but a very rare accomplishment, expect among the magnates of the game.

Most innovative little board game since Chess.

Chess is not a game, but a disease.

Earlier in my career, I never thought of boxing as a chess game, but I confirm that they are, in fact, very similar. You can plan your fights and strategy just like you would in chess.

My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.

That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one

Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game

Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.

Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to learn to be able to do

That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some.

Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.

Knowledge is power. The more knowledge, expertise, and connections you have, the easier it is for you to make a profit at the game of your choice.

Because students leave school without financial skills, millions of educated people pursue their profession successfully, but later find themselves, struggling financially.

I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.

Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.

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.