Vladimir Kramnik Quotes

Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.

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

When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.

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.

There is only one thing Fischer does in Chess without pleasure: to lose!

The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish.

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

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.

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

My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.

We still have not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling.

Playing football can be damn harsh, but every day is a fight for equality.

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

Some games are going to be bad. You can't win every game. That comes along with sports.

Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature.

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

Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.

Chess is not a game, but a disease.

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

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

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

Chess is one long regret.

Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.

The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [...] Today's game was provided by Garry.

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.