Acquaintance Quote by Anatoly Karpov

Chess is a game of stimulation.

— Gza

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

— Magnus Carlsen

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

— Anonymous

Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will…

— Eloisa James

Chess isn't a game of speed, it is a game of speech through actions

— Matt Selman

Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely.

— Reuben Fine

The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in…

— Richard Reti

My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might…

— Dorothy Dunnett

The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate…

— Richard Reti

The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by…

— Benjamin Franklin

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

— Marcel Duchamp

The very idea of how chess players manipulate their game excites me.

— Kay Kay Menon