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Jai Ganesh

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Chess Quotes - VIII

Chess Quotes - VIII

1. For us chess players the language of artist is something natural. - Vladimir Kramnik

2. I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event. - Anatoly Karpov

3. I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back. - Anatoly Karpov

4. Professional players work almost every day, for hours on end, and the emphasis is on the word 'work.' It can be with a partner or it can be alone, but professional chess is always a pursuit of something new and surprising. - Viswanathan Anand

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books. - Garry Kasparov

9. My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again. - Anatoly Karpov.

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