Chess will always be the master of us all.
By the time a player becomes a Grandmaster, almost all of his training time is dedicated to work on this first phase. The opening is the only phase that holds out the potential for true creativity and doing something entirely new.
Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.
Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance
Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
I love watching Samuel L. Jackson do anything, but for me, Gary Oldman is the grandmaster of the game.
I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.
My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.
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.
A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians.
Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it
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.
It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.
When you first start playing, that's your aim obviously, to win the world title.
Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles
Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.
Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)
I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
There aren't really any 'American' grandmasters that are higher rated than me.
Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.
I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.
What was great about Fischer is that when he became world champion is that chess was being covered everywhere. It was in all the major newspapers, it was on TV.
Thanks to the Polgars the adjective 'men's' before events and the 'affirmative action' women's titles such as Woman Grandmaster have become anachronisms.
No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness
