Hikaru Nakamura quotes

If you talk to some of the older players, they definitely say they see beauty in certain games. In my case, there are certain times when I think, 'Wow, that's so amazing, chess is so full of ideas.' But most of the time I tend to be much more pragmatic about it, as opposed to thinking about it as art or something exquisite.

The image that everyone has of a chess player is not necessarily positive. I think it's partly due to Bobby Fischer - his rise to fame and then his descent into madness. That left a lot of people with negative stereotypes, of nerds who aren't interesting.

The first championship in 2005 will always be the most special but winning this fifth one was by far my best performance because of the strength of the field.

Chess is a game where all different sorts of people can come together, not a game in which people are divided because of their religion or country of origin.

Chess.com is my home turf.

If you talk to some of the older players, they definitely say they see beauty in certain games. In my case, there are certain times when I think, 'Wow, that's so amazing, chess is so full of ideas.' But most of the time I tend to be much more pragmatic about it, as opposed to thinking about it as art or something exquisite.

When I was younger, I would look at a game with computers and still be fascinated by the possibilities.

Everybody uses computers to train so much now that the first nine or 10 moves of a match are made without thinking.