Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground part playground. We clarify amplify and glorify the game with our footage the narration and that music and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game especially these days.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online was using the chess club mainly. Now obviously the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.

Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

A computer once beat me at chess but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.