In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
In chess, you gotta come up with a strategy. I made a lot of plans in my life. ‘I’ma do this, I’ma do that, this is gonna happen, that’s gonna happen.’ And a lot of stuff don’t go as planned. You really gotta act on events as they unfold. That’s how I compare chess to life.
Chess is life.
Fighting Manny Pacquiao is like playing a very fast game of chess. He was very fast and sharp. You have to be alert at all times and on your toes. There was a lot of incoming.
I used to play chess when I was a kid and participate in national-level tournaments with the geekiest guys. This one time, I was losing terribly, so I batted my eyelashes and flirted as I asked for a draw. My dad just couldn’t believe it. He thought, ‘What have I created, a floozy?’ But it worked!
Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.
I do hope in Ireland children in schools can experience the richness of chess and it’s positive effects.
You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world and current affairs. I also have many friends around the world with whom I like to keep in touch.
I was involved in a bunch of school activities – I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.
In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King – and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.
Chess and me, it’s hard to take them apart. It’s like my alter ego.
The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.
Las Vegas is a beautiful place. I like it more and more and plan to be here often. It’s a great place for chess.
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.
If we are running sprints, I want to beat everybody by 10 yards. If we are playing checkers, I want to win: I’m pretty good at checkers, and I’m trying to get on chess.
I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.
I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.
I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn’t trying to get the ladies.
Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.
I had a lot of fun playing football and basketball, but deep down, the chess match or cat-and-mouse game between the pitcher and batter in baseball really drew me in. It’s a thinking man’s game, and for me, nothing can compare to that.
Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.
Professional players work almost every day, for hours on end, and the emphasis is on the word ‘work.’ It can be with a partner or it can be alone, but professional chess is always a pursuit of something new and surprising.
I keep track of my blog stats, Facebook subs, my Amazon rank, Twitter followers, Facebook likes per posts, my chess ranking. I get stressed when they all don’t go up.
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
I had been playing a lot of chess and I wasn’t really enjoying it, so I decided to go to college to see what else is out there for me. But after about six or seven months away from the game, I just decided that the whole college life wasn’t for me and that’s why I decided to come back.
I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player’s personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.
The great thing about chess is it’s a game for oneself. You don’t work on what you can’t control, you just work on yourself. And I think if more people did that, we’d all be a lot better off.
In both games, you have to think fast. In chess you tend to know all the patterns already, just like in football.
In poker, you want to play the weaker guys. In chess, it’s the opposite.
I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.
I learned very early on once I started boxing as a kid that if you go into the ring emotionally charged you make mistakes. It’s a mental game, it’s a chess match, you’ve got to think, you’ve got to strategise and make tactical decisions.
Chess is not for timid souls.
My five-year-old, before the quarantine, joined a chess class in our neighborhood in Brooklyn, and my husband was learning to play so that they could play against each other.
In chess, you have to bring all the pieces into the game. It is about development. In writing, you have to develop the story.
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school’s DEC mainframe in the language Basic.
My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn’t feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.
A woman can beat any man; it’s difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That’s why I like chess.
For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.
I may play some exhibition games so I don’t want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it’s a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
I want to show how rich chess is and what kind of history it has, through culture, literature, and education.
I do a mind game every day. I play chess, sudoku. I learn something different: a language, a few words of a different language.
I had a gold medal in olympics at 12. At 14 or 15 I had my career set before me. Because I started so early, I had this daily training. It developed a focus. It became so natural that it was like a native language for me to play chess. That’s why I didn’t feel pressure.
I’m used to litigating against incredibly competent, high-quality lawyers that are very good chess players.
When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I was beating everyone at home, and they thought it would be good to join a club. So my sister would take me to the Tal chess club on Thursdays and weekends.
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
I was happy that at home we were a closed circle and then we went out playing chess and saw the world. It’s a very difficult life and you have to be very careful, especially the parents, who need to know the limits of what you can and can’t do with your child.
Someone once described being a Housewife to me as being one big chess game, and in many ways, I guess it is for some people, but not for me.
At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk – games I find far less addictive than the spectacular games created for consoles these days. But, whenever I get the chance, I head over to my friend Kyri’s house to play his PS3.
My life story is very special. I was raised with a special family as both my parents are teachers. They decided before I was born that I was going to be a chess champion.
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
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.
Yes, I think I have some good knowledge of India. I have lots of Indian friends in the chess fraternity.
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.
It’s important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally think too many coaching and training classes may take away a child’s interest in the game itself. The essential thing to do is practise often and, in case of a doubt, to consult a trainer.
Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
My younger brother ended up the British chess champion 10 times, a record.
Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.
When you’re 17 and 18 is when you get really good, and in college, you have to put the chess aside.
Definitely, some of the artistry and poetry has been lost in modern chess. It’s very rare that I play a game where I’m like, ‘Wow, this is really interesting. There were so many possibilities! It was such a rich game.’
