Vladimir Kramnik Quotes

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.

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

Chess is not dominoes

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality.

Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.

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

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost.

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.