Alliances Quote by Anatoly Karpov

Chess is a meritocracy.

— Lawrence Day

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

— Magnus Carlsen

I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in…

— Viswanathan Anand

On the other hand, chess is a mass sport now and for chess organisers shorter time control is obviously more attractive. But I think…

— Boris Spassky

The Commission is extremely important. The E.U. without the Commission would not be the European Union.

— Miroslav Lajcak

The chess world is obligated to organize a match between the champion of the world and the winner of this Carlsbad tournament - indeed,…

— Aron Nimzowitsch

Chess is, above all, a fight.

— Emanuel Lasker

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as…

— Garry Kasparov

Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

— Richard Reti

Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But…

— Francois Hollande

One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an…

— Judit Polgar

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks…

— Anatol Rapoport