Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate!
You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
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.
Chess is mental torture.
Snooker has just been a British-based sport for such a long time and when I started at 18 the furthest you'd go would be London.
It was fantastic when I came into snooker, when tobacco was throwing lots of money at it, and even when they fell away we thought others would come in because of all the TV exposure. But it didn't happen.
In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.
Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.
Chess is intellectual gymnastics.