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It might sound a little weird that, you know, chess streaming has a community, but really it does.
- Daniel Naroditsky
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I think there's a misconception that chess players are all total nerds. Well, I guess they are.
- Daniel Naroditsky
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You can't follow or understand the game unless you play chess yourself, unlike poker which you can pick up in five minutes.
- Hikaru Nakamura
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I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.
- Dennis Miller
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Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
- Bobby Fischer
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
- Bobby Fischer
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
- Bobby Fischer
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My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again.
- Anatoly Karpov
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
- Magnus Carlsen
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I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.
- Magnus Carlsen
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You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.
- Dorothy Dunnett
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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.
- Thon Maker
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I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.
- Maurice Ashley
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Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition. Mostly, I'm interested in doing real sports.
- John Skipper
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In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.
- Garry Kasparov
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It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
- Garry Kasparov
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I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.
- Garry Kasparov
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You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
- Garry Kasparov
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I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.
- Garry Kasparov
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Chess is mental torture.
- Garry Kasparov
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If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
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Definitely, some of the artistry and poetry has been lost in modern chess. It's very rare that I play a game where I'm like, 'Wow, this is really interesting. There were so many possibilities! It was such a rich game.'
- Hikaru Nakamura
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I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.
- Dallas Roberts
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A lot of people see a future where you could make a living as a chess player.
- Hikaru Nakamura
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I had been playing a lot of chess and I wasn't really enjoying it, so I decided to go to college to see what else is out there for me. But after about six or seven months away from the game, I just decided that the whole college life wasn't for me and that's why I decided to come back.
- Hikaru Nakamura
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Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
- Boris Spassky
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On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think that this control does not suit World Championship matches.
- Boris Spassky
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I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.
- Boris Spassky
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Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
- Boris Spassky
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We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.
- Boris Spassky
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The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
- Boris Spassky
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Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him.
- Marcus du Sautoy
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Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
- Max Euwe
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I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.
- Joshua Waitzkin
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Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.
- Mark Waters
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For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.
- Jeff Garlin
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The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me.
- Kay Kay Menon
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Actually, one of the fascinating things that I've learned playing chess is that the way you play chess is kind of like the way you live your life.
- Anthony Carrigan
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Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.
- Peter Mayhew
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Being one of the lucky ones I shouldn't be complaining, but for the chess world in general it would be good to find a structure in which chess professionals of lower levels would make a good living as well.
- Anish Giri
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Top players are privileged in the chess world.
- Anish Giri
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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.
- Anish Giri
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I barely know what my plans are for tomorrow, but I hope chess will remain a major part of my life.
- Anish Giri
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Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.
- Magnus Carlsen
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My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.
- Magnus Carlsen
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Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
- Magnus Carlsen
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
- Magnus Carlsen
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In chess, you gotta come up with a strategy. I made a lot of plans in my life. 'I'ma do this, I'ma do that, this is gonna happen, that's gonna happen.' And a lot of stuff don't go as planned. You really gotta act on events as they unfold. That's how I compare chess to life.
- Tee Grizzley
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My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.
- Jeff Nichols
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When humans team up with computers to play chess, the humans who do best are not necessarily the strongest players. They're the ones who are modest and who know when to listen to the computer. Often, what the human adds is knowledge of when the computer needs to look more deeply.
- Tyler Cowen
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Chess is not only knowledge and logic.
- Alexander Alekhine
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Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.
- Alexander Alekhine
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Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.
- Alexander Alekhine
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We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.
- Arnon Goldfinger
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I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.
- Robert Mundell
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Yes, I think I have some good knowledge of India. I have lots of Indian friends in the chess fraternity.
- Anish Giri
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I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
- Magnus Carlsen
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Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and internal issues with my chess life. Tai chi is the martial embodiment of Taoist philosophy. Initially, I had no intention of competing in the martial arts; it was just the meditation.
- Joshua Waitzkin
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I think chess players are not always what you think them to be. Or maybe it's our job to appear serious.
- Anish Giri
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Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.
- Ron Livingston
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Football and chess can seem like sporting polar opposites, but there are so many similarities with the modern game.
- Trent Alexander-Arnold
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When I saw 'Chess' in London, I thought it was horrible. It was so static. People were coming down front and just facing the audience, singing.
- Donna McKechnie
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I believe there is something going on in a conscious being, which includes many animals, as well as ourselves, that is not a computational activity. And to be conscious at all is not a quality that a computer as such will ever possess - no matter how complicated, no matter how well it plays chess or any of these things.
- Roger Penrose
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My younger brother ended up the British chess champion 10 times, a record.
- Roger Penrose
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These guys are playing checkers. I'm out here playing chess. When they figure it out, it's too late.
- Max Holloway
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Well, I think, in large part, when I first began playing chess at seven years old, I was quite bad at it. I lost a lot of games when I first started.
- Hikaru Nakamura
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In chess, everyone's accepted. That's what's great about it. You can be a little bit different. You can be an oddball.
- Hikaru Nakamura
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Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable.
- Hikaru Nakamura
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Chess is a game where all different sorts of people can come together, not a game in which people are divided because of their religion or country of origin.
- Hikaru Nakamura
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No, I've never had a job other than being a chess player.
- Hikaru Nakamura
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In poker, you want to play the weaker guys. In chess, it's the opposite.
- Hikaru Nakamura
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I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.
- Olivia Holt
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Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning.
- Gza
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Life is a chess match. Every decision that you make has a consequence to it.
- P.K. Subban
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My mother is Russian and father Nepalese, so we always had a chess board at home. Chess is part of the culture in both Russia and Nepal.
- Anish Giri
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What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.
- Ryan Stiles
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
- Felix Frankfurter
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The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.
- Marilyn vos Savant
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In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.
- Viswanathan Anand
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I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation.
- Viswanathan Anand
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Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
- Wilhelm Steinitz
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Chess is not for timid souls.
- Wilhelm Steinitz
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It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.
- Douglass North
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Playing chess can make you a better poker player because it forces you to think several moves ahead. That kind of intense mental exercise develops a deeper level of thinking than is typically encountered when playing poker.
- Daniel Negreanu
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In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.
- Jaan Tallinn
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We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.
- Hod Lipson
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Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.
- Eric Allin Cornell
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My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.
- Eric Allin Cornell
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The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.
- Kyle Korver
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I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
- Marcel Duchamp
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The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.
- Jason Reynolds
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She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.
- Kate Chopin
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Boxing is like chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalise on it. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it's not about aggression. Avoiding getting knocked out is tactical.
- Nicola Adams
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Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it.
- Sarah West
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In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
- Charles Buxton
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Many leaders are tempted to lead like a chess master, striving to control every move, when they should be leading like gardeners, creating and maintaining a viable ecosystem in which the organization operates.
- Stanley A. McChrystal
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Life's to short for chess.
- Henry James Byron
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Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
- Garry Kasparov
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Chess demolishes differences. It's a language of different generations.
- Judit Polgar
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Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.
- Anatoly Karpov
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