Built Quote by Boris Gelfand

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

— George Bernard Shaw

Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.

— Yuri Razuvaev

“Why people do that in case it can be predicted like the table of chess, why people are liars and hypocritical?”

— Deyth Banger

It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.

— Garry Kasparov

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

— Raymond Chandler

I think chess players are not always what you think them to be. Or maybe it's our job to appear serious.

— Anish Giri

Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.

— Anne Bronte

The decision taken in haste to prove you wrong as it has proven many times that the game of chess

— Mak_786

Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess.

— Vasily Smyslov

The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize…

— Jason Reynolds

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

— Raymond Chandler

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.

— Garry Kasparov