I'm a pretty good chess player.Joel KinnamanTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“I'm a pretty good chess player.
“The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters I play.”Joel KinnamanConduct
“I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class.”Joel Kinnaman
“We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.”Boris SpasskyChess
“In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.”Garry Kasparov
“Sometimes if you start a relationship when you're young, you're not as fully developed as a person. You need a relationship that lets you develop in different ways. You need to bounce off different people.”Joel KinnamanBounce
“I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.”Joel KinnamanAccent
“If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.”Joel KinnamanDarkness
“I love to dress for the occasion. I played in an online chess tournament, so for every single day of that, I created some outfits inspired by Beth Harmon from 'The Queen's Gambit.'”PokimaneChess
“Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.”David HockneyChess
“It's certainly an honor to have kids who are looking up to me, but at the same time, I'm just trying to do what I can to raise the profile of chess.”Hikaru NakamuraChess