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Jai Ganesh

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Chess Quotes - III

Chess Quotes - III

1. 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

2. Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters. - Garry Kasparov

3. All I want to do, ever, is play chess. - Bobby Fischer

4. 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

5. The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost. - Viktor Korchnoi

6. My father and mother are exceptional pedagogues who can motivate and tell it from all different angles. Later, chess for me became a sport, an art, a science, everything together. I was very focused on chess, and happy with that world. - Judit Polgar

7. I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces. - Garry Kasparov

8. I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly. - Magnus Carlsen.

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