game of skill Quotes

Chess - it's a nonmainstream game. And the irony is that when you look at Hollywood, it kept using chess as the symbol of intelligence for its heroes, for its top characters, all the time. So it's from "Casablanca" to "Harry Potter." You always have chess as a very important element to demonstrate intelligence, while in normal life people think it's just a weird intelligence - like AI.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem

If luck weren't involved, I'd win every tournament!

I was on the train the other day, and I heard somebody say, I'm really good at checkers. That's the same thing as saying, I'm not good at very many things.

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

But eventually it is a game of cricket.

A woman can beat any man; it's difficult to imagine another kind of sport where a woman can beat a man. That's why I like chess.