In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.
Many leaders are tempted to lead like a chess master, striving to control every move, when they should be leading like gardeners, creating and maintaining a viable ecosystem in which the organization operates.
In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the authorities.
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.
My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.
A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality.
In chess, there are some extremely beautiful things in the domain of movement, but not in the visual domain. It's the imagining of the movement or of the gesture that makes the beauty in this case.
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.
Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
Football and chess can seem like sporting polar opposites, but there are so many similarities with the modern game.
I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
I keep track of my blog stats, Facebook subs, my Amazon rank, Twitter followers, Facebook likes per posts, my chess ranking. I get stressed when they all don't go up.
What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.
I have to constantly work on my reflexes and hand-eye coordination. I do a lot of puzzles. I play chess.
