The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
Chess is mental torture.
I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess.
No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.
I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.
In Kansas I have a chess school.
After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired.
I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.
Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this.