Ralph Hasenhuttl Quotes

Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.

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 most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.

I see myself used in terms of reading mismatches. If it's small, go inside. If it's big, come outside. And if it's in between, then work him, make him think you're going outside, go back inside. Just play chess.

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.

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.

I play a lot of chess. I probably played 200 games while we were making 'Andromeda.'

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

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

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.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

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

I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.