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Jai Ganesh

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Chess Quotes - V

Chess Quotes - V

1. One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach. - Magnus Carlsen

2. I believe there is something going on in a conscious being, which includes many animals, as well as ourselves, that is not a computational activity. And to be conscious at all is not a quality that a computer as such will ever possess - no matter how complicated, no matter how well it plays chess or any of these things. - Roger Penrose

3. Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that. - Magnus Carlsen

4. I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak. - Emma Watson

5. Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport. - Magnus Carlsen

6. You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world and current affairs. I also have many friends around the world with whom I like to keep in touch. - Viswanathan Anand

7. I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist. - Bobby Fischer

8. 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.

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