I think most people are fascinated by chess for that reason. It's just these mystical shapes. It's almost like Harry Potteresque, like wizard's chess….

My brother played the game with his friends, so I thought I was a pretty smart kid and I played this friend of mine and he just crushed me and this w….

I love to win. I'm very competitive in most games, but I think also the beauty of the game. There was something about it, the pieces, the shapes, som….

His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and ….

I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more int….

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 f….

There's so many lessons I get from chess, it's incredible, but I think the biggest thing for me has always been is that losing is learning..

Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to learn to be ab….

Today, you talk to kids about books and they almost want to run away because they've got computers, iPads and all that, while we had to actually sit ….

Well I just so happened to bump into a chess book in the library at school and I didn't know that there were books on chess and so I take this book o….

Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing….

You playing chess well is just a reflection of your inner thought process and your ability to maintain discipline throughout. If we can teach every c….

I don't like getting hit for one, although you know I did take Aikido for many years, but Aikido is a different kind of martial art, maybe even a mor….

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me….

Just because you lose doesn't mean you're a loser, and champions don't quit..