Championship Quote by Anish Giri

Blitz chess kills your ideas.

— Bobby Fischer

If you're playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I got really…

— Paul Banks

It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do…

— Viswanathan Anand

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

— Nigel Short

There is no better training for chess than swimming. On a Friday evening I like to put in a good long session of breaststroke…

— Judit Polgar

I love chess. Having to concentrate, to play against someone else, strategy - having to think ahead. I think all of that is very…

— Carlos Alcaraz

Watching routes and studying routes, you can learn stuff that way or you can learn blocking schemes on blitzes. You never know what you…

— Luke Kuechly

For young players, their minds are not overloaded. I am 54 with four kids and I do many other things. Even if I stopped…

— Garry Kasparov

I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.

— Anatoly Karpov

Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.

— Magnus Carlsen

In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move.

— Anonymous

Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.

— Garry Kasparov