Viktor Korchnoi Quotes

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

David Beckham is always seen as the thickest man on the planet, too daft to complete a jigsaw puzzle. But then you watch old footage of him playing and every time he plays a ball across the field, he's intuitively working out the trajectory of the ball.

Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

All of the usual formations have advantages and disadvantages, but none would work without the magic of the players.

All I ever try and do in any game is play to how I see the situation.

If you give a good player time, he can kill you.

When there's something we weren't prepared for on the football field, you have to be able to use your mind, be creative, communicate, get lined up and get ready to do the play, get ready to execute.

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.

Football is like chess, only without the dice.

Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.

Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.

Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.

Chess is a matter of daily training.

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.

Wait," said Butler. "Just wait, Holly. Artemis has a plan." He squinted through the green dome. "What is your plan, Artemis?" All Artemis could do was smile and shrug.

Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was worrying about was how to reach them!

How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

I still feel like my game is very dangerous. I always will have my serve.

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