I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
Magnus Carlsen
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
Siegbert Tarrasch
Preparation for a world championship was always an arms race, in previous times with books, then with seconds, today with computers.
Vishy Anand 2008
Parapsychology? That’s a bunch of bananas. Korchnoi believes in that. He is still playing his game with the ghost of Geza Maroczy.
Nathan Divinsky 2004
I still think people can learn at any age – I’m actually sure about that. It’s just that the ceiling is lower for how far you want to go.
Magnus Carlsen 2016
