Chess Tournament Quotes

[Politics in America is:] A chess tournament disguised as a circus.

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

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

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

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

I'm a pretty good chess player.

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.

She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armour, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency.

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

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.

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

In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats on your wedding. You were a great player, now be ready to lose 50 points'.

In the current FIDE World Championship, on the knock-out system, weaker players have good chances. Those, who in a long match would practically have no chance, here may creep through.

For the moment, I am more focused on classical chess rather than rapid and blitz, as I am hoping to make my move in the classical World championship cycle.

I was very competitive growing up. I can't even play chess anymore because I used to play tournament chess in school. There's too much sense memory of sitting in front of a chess board and getting super intense about it. It's ruined the game for me.

A chess tournament disguised as a circus.

If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all.

I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.

I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be in the one city where there was a sprouting chess team: Chennai.