Vladimir Kramnik Quotes About Chess

Quotes about: Chess

• Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Sports, Bodybuilding, Training

• I don't know whether computers are improving the style of play, I know they are changing it. Chess has become a different game, one could say that computers have changed the world of chess. That is pretty clear.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Games, Play, Style

  "Kramnik on health, plans - and computers". Interview with Frederic Friedel, en.chessbase.com. March 13, 2006.

• It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Success, Winning, Chess

• For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Art, Self, Expression

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview With Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

• I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Character, Player, Personality

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview With Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

• Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Player, Playing Chess, Limits

• My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Book, Practice, Games

• In this respect, I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry [Kasparov]. With his very emotive body language at the [chess]board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Opposites, Boards, Body

• I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Children, Character, Hands

• When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Children, Games, Play

• Every month I look through some ten thousand games, so not as to miss any new ideas and trends.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Practice, Games, Ideas

• When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Games, Example, Chess

  "About Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth, Creativity, Telepathy and Artificial Intelligence". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

• In the current FIDE World Championship, on the knock-out system, weaker players have good chances. Those, who in a long match would practically have no chance, here may creep through.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Player, Long, World

• Look at the catastrophic record Vishy Anand has against Garry Kasparov. Kasparov managed to beat him almost everywhere they played, even though Vishy Anand has belonged to the absolute top players in the world for fifteen years. This difference cannot be explained purely in chess terms, there must have been some psychology.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Player, Differences, Years

• Chess is a matter of daily training.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Training, Chess, Matter

• Computers have changed the world of chess.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  World, Chess, Computer

  "Kramnik on health, plans - and computers". Interview with Frederic Friedel, en.chessbase.com. March 13, 2006.

• In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Player, Games, Chess

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

• Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Games, Play, Chess

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

• Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Chess, Lost, Feels

  "Vladimir Kramnik: 'Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost'". Interview with Alexander Schwabe, en.chessbase.com. June 9, 2006.

• For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Artist, Player, Chess

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

• I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Believe, Player, Creating

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

• On the whole, the life of a chess professional is not as easy as it appears at first sight. One needs to devote some ten hours a day to chess and to everything connected with it - physical and psycholgical preparation.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Practice, Sight, Preparation

• The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Creativity, Imagination, Development

  "Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

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