Vladimir Kramnik Quotes

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning.

The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time.

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.

Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.

When the President is a moralist, he needs a process that will make up for the natural shortcomings of such a style—an inattention to second-step thinking, an allergy to detail, a tendency not to see the point of having dissenters, a habit of allowing certainty to override considerations of risk. It is the National Security Advisor’s responsibility to fill a President’s strategic gaps, not to exacerbate them.

I would say my strengths are vision and strategy.

I'm always good at seeing five, ten steps ahead. Like, really thinking ahead, you know? Reverse engineering, whatever it is, you know.

I don't have any magical ability. I look at a problem, play with it, work out a strategy.

My game is more a game of thinking than anything else.

Every game gives you a new challenge, and new problems to solve.

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.

With my intellect, I'm somebody who can think fast, think on my feet and can think under pressure.

You know what never gets schemed or what never gets stymied? Going through your reads and completing balls.

You can be a great skater, you can have really good puck skills, but the ability to problem-solve is, to me, key.

Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable.

As a chess player I learn to adapt to new situations and always try to make the best move without looking back or asking why and how I ended up in a situation I ended up in.

Actually, one of the fascinating things that I've learned playing chess is that the way you play chess is kind of like the way you live your life.

Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way.

It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.