Chess Quote by Alison Gopnik

Chess can open up a kid's brain, and develop it in a playful creative way. They can learn playfully about creative, strategic, and logical…

— Judit Polgar

Chess, like love, is infectious at any age.

— Salo Flohr

Chess is imagination.

— David Bronstein

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Chess is, in essence, a game for children. Computers have exacerbated the trends towards youth because they now have an immensely powerful tool at…

— Nigel Short

“Grandmasters play chess by combining experience with intuition, backed up with calculation and study. Computers play chess by brute calculation; their “study” consists of…

— Garry Kasparov

You are never too old to play chess!

— Bobby Fischer

The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

— Viktor Korchnoi

Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to…

— Boris Spassky

I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I was 16…

— Magnus Carlsen

Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among…

— Emanuel Lasker