Just as the pianist practices the most complicated pieces to improve the technique of his fingers, so too a grandmaster must keep his vision in trim ….

When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down….

I've never really had a chance to play a bad guy, and that's something I've always really, really wanted to do. I wanted to experience that really da….

None of us really pushes hard enough. People always talk about playing over your head when you are up against someone really good. Maybe you don't pl….

Courage doesn't always roar..

America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of….

I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combin….

Dedicate yourself to expressing your best..

Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy..

Do what you gotta do and stay fly.

It's very hard to admit that the choice of 3D technology can play an important role for the director while he's thinking about the movie. But it does….

I'm so not a celebrity..

It's okay to play with your food..

Until you respond to God by faith, you do not receive from Him, because God is a faith-God..

Never play for the win, never play for the draw, just play chess!.

All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is..

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life..

My purpose isn't to be confrontational. My purpose is to find out about the world and play myself against it to the extent that it is even conceivabl….

We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garmen….

Relationships are based on trust until you meet someone new..

Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand proved that even this o….