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- Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what…
- For me, chess is not a profession, it is a way of life, a passion. People may feel that I have conquered the peak and…
- Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it
- It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that…
- There are some things we do much better than computers, but since most of chess is tactically based they do many things better than humans.…
- For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.
- I think the draw quotient has always been high in world championship matches because the amount of effort people put into neutralizing each other's openings.…
- 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.…
- I'll take my five positions per second any day, thank you
- Confidence is very important - even pretending to be Confident. If you make a Mistake but do not let your Opponent see what you are…
- I would never suggest to anyone that they drop school for chess. First of all even if you can make it in chess, your social…
- When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that…
- In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.
- Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.
- We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.
- Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have…
- Chess has given me a lot more than I could ask for. I have been able to feel special, travel the world and do what…
- 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…
- If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In…
- It's important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally think too many…
- When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I was beating everyone…
- You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world and current affairs.…
- In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I…
- 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…
- I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take…
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