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#1 2024-09-17 00:04:07

Jai Ganesh
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Chess Quotes - IV

Chess Quotes - IV

1. 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. - Vladimir Kramnik

2. I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess. - Magnus Carlsen

3. Being professional means 100% is not enough. Number one, two and three in my life was chess. The reality for women is, when a child comes into the picture, priorities change. - Judit Polgar

4. There is no better training for chess than swimming. On a Friday evening I like to put in a good long session of breaststroke at the pool near where I live in Budapest with my husband, Gusztav, and my two children. - Judit Polgar

5. My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life. - Magnus Carlsen

6. We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow. - Viswanathan Anand

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

8. If, in our first match for the world champion's title, I had managed to make the score 6-0, there would have been no Kasparov as a good chess player at all. - Anatoly Karpov.


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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