Daniel Naroditsky Quotes

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.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

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.

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

I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

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

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.

By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.

A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

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.

All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.

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.

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

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

Blitz chess kills your ideas.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

A master looks at every move he would like to make, especially the impossible ones

Chess demands total concentration

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.