Anatoly Karpov Quotes

Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.

Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

War strategy is always unique. It is like a chess game. The pieces are always the same but each game is unique

I play football like chess. You have to think a lot and anticipate what could happen after you make your move.

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash.

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combinative with the positional, and I aim to respond to the demands of each given position.

Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half

It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is

If you put it on the table as a bargaining chip, it becomes a bargaining chip

I pass and I move, I help you, I look for you, I stop, I raise my head, I look and, above all, I open up the pitch...The one who has the ball, is the master of the game...Thats the school of Joan Vilà, of Albert Benaiges, of Johan Cruijff, of Pep Guardiola

Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at all.

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished forever. Chess knowledge has become dominant, bypassing all the other factors that contribute to success.

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

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.

To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.

In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.

Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something

Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.

The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem

There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end.