I didn't know so well chess theory, the theory of chess openings. And so, of course I knew the theory, but not on the level of the best players, so this was my... this was always my weakness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.
The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.
Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
Chess is not only knowledge and logic.
Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.
In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.