Gza Quotes

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.

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.

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

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.

When you watch chess, you don't see the four hours that the player spends preparing for a match ahead of time.

For the moment, I am more focused on classical chess rather than rapid and blitz, as I am hoping to make my move in the classical World championship cycle.

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

A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.

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

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I'm a pretty good chess player.

Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns.

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings.

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 could think six shots ahead. It's no different to playing chess.

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 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.

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