Anatoly Karpov Quotes

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

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

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

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

On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

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.

You can't win the chess match if you don't have enough pieces.

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.

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

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

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

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.

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.

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

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

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

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.

Like MCs, each chess player has his own style: how he likes to open, when he likes to attack. Just like we face off with each other lyrically, we challenge each other's minds on the chessboard. Sharpen each other's swords.

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

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.

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.