“Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.” LongPlayBigsSportsComedyComputerClubsChessObsessionObsessedBig ThingsLong Life Author:Chris Hardwick
“I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.” SportsLuckyBaseballUnionsChessSovietSoviet UnionPopular Sports Author:Garry Kasparov
“The Olympic Charter says winter sports must be played on snow or ice, so the Chess Federation says they'll play with ice pieces. The Olympic charter also says sports must be sports.” PlaySportsPiecesWinterChessSnowIceCharterFederation Author:Peter Sagal
“The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.” SportsChessViolentTorture Author:Garry Kasparov
“When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport.” TryingArtTwoBeautifulWinningSportsStudyTroublePositionMethodChessAdmireCombinationOpponentsKnightsBishopsEndgame Author:Ashot Nadanian
“[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.” SchoolSportsTeamHigh SchoolGolfSizeChessTall Author:Carol Mann
“I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I was 16 years old. In other sports, if you have been playing for seven years, you are not a young prodigy any more. You're one of the pros.” IfsWorldYearsHas BeensYoungSportsPlayerSevenChessSeven YearsTournamentsChess PlayersProdigies Author:Magnus Carlsen
“I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.” GamesSportsAcceptedChessOlympic GamesSports In General Author:Viswanathan Anand