I'm sorry Frank, I think you missed it. Queen to bishop three, bishop takes queen, knight takes bishop, mate. - HAL 9000 in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" to astronaut Frank Poole
It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine. - Bobby Fischer
But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the most marvellous wonders of our 20th century! - David Bronstein
Listen, I don't want to boast but I do happen to be national champion in Scotland. It just isn't conceivable that you can design a program strong enough to beat players like me. - David Levy, 1969
Chess masters as well as chess computers deserve less reverence than the public accords them. - Eliot Hearst
It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better. - Garry Kasparov
Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook. - Garry Kasparov
Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that computer superiority over humans in chess had always been just a matter of time. - Garry Kasparov
Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to provide enough options that any user can pick from different levels and the machine will try to make enough mistakes to give him a chance. - Garry Kasparov
Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer. - Garry Kasparov
By the mid-1990s the number of people with some experience of using computers was many orders of magnitude greater than in the 1960s. In the Kasparov defeat they recognized that here was a great triumph for programmers, but not one that may compete with the human intelligence that helps us to lead our lives. - Igor Aleksander
Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it. - Judit Polgar
Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves. - Ken Rogoff, 2010
Chess programs are our enemies, they destroy the romance of chess. They take away the beauty of the game. Everything can be calculated. - Levon Aronian
Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first. - (to Karpov & students, 1965) - Mikhail Botvinnik
If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company. - Nigel Short
For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one. - Viswanathan Anand
I don’t know whether computers are improving the style of play, I know they are changing it. Chess has become a different game, one could say that computers have changed the world of chess. That is pretty clear. - Vladimir Kramnik