Chess Opening Quotes

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

An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!

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

When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.

I'm a pretty good chess player.

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

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.

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.

It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the abyss.

I don't recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head. The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent's position and can attack weaknesses in his game.

Barak Obama is a chess player in a town full of checkers players.

When you first start playing, that's your aim obviously, to win the world title.

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

Playing black, I put great stake in the Ruy Lopez: I liked it, feel it, and understand it; in matches with Hjartarson and Timman it served me well. - on preparing for World Championship versus Garry Kasparov

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

Everyone is using the same programs, everyone is looking at the same opening ideas. I wouldn't say everyone is necessarily the same in terms of talent or ability, but when you're able to prepare games that go so deep that you don't have to think, really, it balances out the field.

When you watch chess, you don't see the four hours that the player spends preparing for a match ahead of time.

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

I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.

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

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings.

In my opinion, the King's Gambit is busted. It loses by force.

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.