Vladimir Kramnik Quotes

Capablanca did not apply himself to opening theory (in which he never therefore achieved much), but delved deeply into the study of end-games and other simple positions which respond to technique rather than to imagination.

Chess is not a game, but a disease.

A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians.

I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.

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

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 see myself used in terms of reading mismatches. If it's small, go inside. If it's big, come outside. And if it's in between, then work him, make him think you're going outside, go back inside. Just play chess.

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.

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.

Chess is a matter of daily training.

Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

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

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

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.

I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.

As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.

Combination is a soul of chess.

Chess will always be the master of us all.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

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.

Often, in the Ruy Lopez, one must be patient, wait and carry on a lengthy and wearisome struggle.

Watching the season for me is about watching the chess matches.