Chess Champion Quotes

Chess is not for timid souls.

The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

I'm definitely the first no.1 in the world since Fischer, and probably at least since Kasparov, who probably has the most potential to dominate for the foreseeable future.

I remember mentioning to friends back in 1938 that the world chess champion would be beaten by a computer in 50 years time. Today we know computers are not far from this goal.

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

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.

By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion

If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.

There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.

I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid - I wasn't - but because I simply lived in one world, and the grandmasters existed in a completely different one. People like that were not really even people, but like gods or mythical heroes.

I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.

My younger brother ended up the British chess champion 10 times, a record.

Recently I saw Kasparov and he looked to me as still young and potent champion.

Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.

I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.