Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular.
After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired.
I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.
Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.
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.
Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.
My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through...
Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.
It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.
My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance...
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
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.
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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.
I didn't know so well chess theory, the theory of chess openings. And so, of course I knew the theory, but not on the level of the best players, so this was my... this was always my weakness.
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.
Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'
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.
Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.
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.
