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I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.

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 believe that the best style is a universal one, tactical and positional at the same time.

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.

... I bid farewell to my readers in the hope that they have formed their own opinion as to the meaning of the word "combination".

I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.

I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.

I definitely miss the rush from wiping out an opponent.

I don't know if I went to the gym, [but] Woody [Harrelson] was 24, and at that point I was like 37, which is when you realize you're no longer 24. So in walked Woody, who was instantly great, but offstage, it was [all] testosterone. We'll arm-wrestle. I still have, like, tendinitis in my elbow. Woody cleaned everybody's clock in everything. Then we got less physical and went to chess, and he whipped our asses with chess.

I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out of his overwhelming victory in New York, 1927, and his underestimation of mine.

I'd like to go away for six months and learn to kiteboard and windsurf. I love pinochle, I love chess and I love windsurfing.

I do not know to whom the aphorism 'There are no sound studies, only ones that haven't been busted yet' belongs, but it has measure of truth in it.

I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.

I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.

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

I'd rather have a Pawn than a finger

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses

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

I hate anyone who beats me.

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 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 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 like to make them squirm.

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

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

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

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