Viswanathan Anand Quotes About Chess

Quotes about: Chess

• Confidence is very important - even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the mistake.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Mistake, Thinking, Important

  "Vishy Anand: 'Chess is like acting'". SPIEGEL Interview with Ansbert Kneip,Maik Großekathöfer, en.chessbase.com. October 1, 2008.

• For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Doors, Chess, Computer

  "Vishy Anand: 'Chess is like acting'". Der Spiegel interview, en.chessbase.com. October 1, 2008.

• Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Moving, Intuition, Mind

• Nowadays, when you're not a grandmaster at 14, you can forget about it

  Viswanathan Anand

  Chess, Forget, Youngsters

• Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have a unique ability of taking in a lot of information and remembering relevant bits. So, memory and mental stamina are the key attributes.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Sports, Memories, Unique

• I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Challenges, Trying, Boards

• There are some things we do much better than computers, but since most of chess is tactically based they do many things better than humans. And this imbalance remains. I no longer have any issues. It's bit like asking an astronomer, does he mind that a telescope does all the work. He is used to it. It is just an incredible tool that you can use.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Issues, Mind, Doe

• For me, chess is not a profession, it is a way of life, a passion. People may feel that I have conquered the peak and will not have to struggle. Financially, perhaps that is true; but as far as chess goes, I'm still learning a lot!

  Viswanathan Anand

  Struggle, Passion, People

• Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Player, Chess, Firsts

• I would never suggest to anyone that they drop school for chess. First of all even if you can make it in chess, your social skills need to be developed there.

  Viswanathan Anand

  School, Skills, Chess

• I think the draw quotient has always been high in world championship matches because the amount of effort people put into neutralizing each other's openings. It's just now with computers that it has reached a new level.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Thinking, People, Effort

• In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats on your wedding. You were a great player, now be ready to lose 50 points'.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Player, Dedication, Cards

• It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Games, Play, Long

• When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Mean, Kids, Years

  "Devil's Advocate: Viswanathan Anand on mind games". CNN-IBN interview, en.chessbase.com. May 13, 2008.

• I'll take my five positions per second any day, thank you

  Viswanathan Anand

  Chess, Position, Five

• My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Jobs, Games, Play

• Chess has given me a lot more than I could ask for. I have been able to feel special, travel the world and do what I truly enjoy. Moreover, chess players love being their own boss and hate having to wake up early!

  Viswanathan Anand

  Hate, Player, Up Early

• I was very lucky that while I was a chess player in a country where chess was not a big deal, I happened to be in the one city where there was a sprouting chess team: Chennai.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Country, Team, Player

  "Q&A: Inside the Mind of the World’s Top Chess Player". Interview with Aditi Malhotra, blogs.wsj.com. April 3, 2013.

• I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Player, Average, Games

• My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Sports, Home, School

• If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Strong, Player, Ideas

• It's important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally think too many coaching and training classes may take away a child's interest in the game itself. The essential thing to do is practise often and, in case of a doubt, to consult a trainer.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Children, Thinking, Games

• In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Chess, Evaluation, Sometimes

• When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I was beating everyone at home, and they thought it would be good to join a club. So my sister would take me to the Tal chess club on Thursdays and weekends.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Mother, Sibling, Teaching

• Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Champion, Titles, Relief

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