In the past twenty years Kramnik has played a few thousand games, and if you show me a position from one of them, in 90 percent of the time I will be able to tell you which game it is from.
Vishy Anand 2008
” Chess is most certainly not my life.”
Tony Miles
Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.
Hans Ree
” (about Lasker) For me, this personality, notwithstanding his fundamentally optimistic attitude, had a tragic note. The enormous mental resilience, without which no chess player can exist, was so much taken up by chess that he could never free his mind of this game, even when he was occupied by philosophical and humanitarian questions.”
Albert Einstein
Petrosian-Spassky? To think I could have watched an excellent football match instead!
Mikhail Tal 1966
