Age Quote by Choi Hong Hi

By the time a player becomes a Grandmaster, almost all of his training time is dedicated to work on this first phase. The opening…

— Garry Kasparov

I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid…

— Anatoly Karpov

In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop…

— Alexander Kotov

A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are…

— Garry Kasparov

Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it

— Viswanathan Anand

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

— Viktor Korchnoi

Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough…

— David Bronstein

Grandmasters decline with age. That's a given. There is nothing special about the age of 40, but age eventually takes its toll. That much…

— Viswanathan Anand

Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty

— Dominic Lawson

If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist or a…

— Sheena Iyengar

“To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fischer got to that elite level in less…

— Malcolm Gladwell

It is through drawing that masters are first revealed, through drawing that they live and prove their value, whatever variations they may impose on…

— Michael Gerard Bauer