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I'd rather have a Pawn than a finger

I dropped the King's Indian in 1997 after one too many bad experiences against Kramnik.

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

If the kids get a good grasp of what the main lessons are for chess after two or three years of staying with the game, then you've given them brain food and you've given them a skill that can last them a lifetime.

If the media didn't know I played chess, there'd be no angle on me at all.

If the defender is forced to give up the center, then every possible attack follows almost of itself.

If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

If we are to elevate the game of chess to a popular sport, grandmasters must become gladiators, otherwise the game will languish on the periphery, a voice crying in the wilderness, condemned to live and die on a cold arctic shore.

If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.

If trading is like chess, then macro is like three-dimensional chess.

If you don't know what to do, find your worst Piece and look for a better Square.

If you don't know what to play, play nothing.

I hate anyone who beats me.

I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses

I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.

I go over many games collections and pick up something from the style of each player.

I have also heard that GM Oscar Panno said that -whenever you have to make a rook move and both rooks are available for said move- you should evaluate which rook to move and, once you have made up your mind... MOVE THE OTHER ONE!!!

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.

I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.

I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.

I have frequently stated that I regard chess as an art form, where creativity prevails over other factors.

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.

I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.

I learnt an enormous amount, but there came a point where I found there was too much stress. It was no fun any more. Outside of the chessboard I avoid conflict, so I thought this wasn't worth it.

I like 1.e4 very much, but my results are better with 1.d4.

I like to say that Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever. But what made Fischer a genius was his ability to blend an American freshness and pragmatism with Russian ideas about strategy

I like to make them squirm.

I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them.

I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If we see one, we automatically look to see if it can be netted.

I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

I look one move ahead... the best!

I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.

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. You were a great player, now be ready to lose 50 points'.

In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game

In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.

In chess there is a world of intellectual values.

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.

In chess it is more important to frustrate your opponent's strategy than to be obsessed with your own.

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.

In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn't do well. They'd get bad openings.

In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.

India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.

In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.

In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.