Magnet Quote by Ashot Nadanian

The center of the chessboard is a magnet, which pulls to itself all the pieces. Therefore the most beautiful and amazing moves, for me,…

— Ashot Nadanian

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws…

— Thomas Huxley

I think most people are fascinated by chess for that reason. It's just these mystical shapes. It's almost like Harry Potteresque, like wizard's chess…

— Maurice Ashley

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.

— Howard Staunton

The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.

— Rumi

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

— Marcel Duchamp

“When your main game’s over, you can always move your chessboard elsewhere.”

— Margaret Atwood

Chess is a game of stimulation.

— Gza

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

— David Bronstein

Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you…

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

— Albert Einstein

The placing of the centre pawns determines the "topography" of a game of chess.

— Alexander Kotov