I don't know if people know this but I am pretty good at chess. I was always on the chess team at school when I was younger.
Capablanca possessed an amazing ability to quickly see into a position and intuitively grasp its main features. His style, one of the purest, most crystal-clear in the entire history of chess, astonishes one with his logic.
The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.
I'm definitely the first no.1 in the world since Fischer, and probably at least since Kasparov, who probably has the most potential to dominate for the foreseeable future.
I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.
Chess continues to advance over time, so the players of the future will inevitably surpass me in the quality of their play, assuming the rules and regulations allow them to play serious chess. But it will likely be a long time before anyone spends 20 consecutive years as number, one as I did.
Chess was the only thing Hermione ever lost at, something Harry and Ron thought was very good for her.
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.
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.
Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it
My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.
What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.
Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess thinking that Capablanca possessed in 1913-14. In blitz games he gave all the St. Petersburg players odds of five minutes to one - and he won.
Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.
The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.
I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.
Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)
The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world
If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.
There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.
I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid - I wasn't - but because I simply lived in one world, and the grandmasters existed in a completely different one. People like that were not really even people, but like gods or mythical heroes.
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
Nowadays, a 13-year-old would probably know more than Bobby Fischer knew when he retired. They analyse all the moves and prepare themselves on their computers. But that doesn’t mean they are special.
Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.
