Magnus Carlsen Quotes

Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way.

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good Chess

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

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

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.

And in high school, people are always watching so there's always a reason to pose.

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

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.

Chess will always be the master of us all.

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.

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.

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

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.

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.

Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.

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

I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame.

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.

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

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

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 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.

Chess.com is my home turf.

You can't follow or understand the game unless you play chess yourself, unlike poker which you can pick up in five minutes.

When you play chess alone it's always your move.