Beautiful Quote by Boris Gelfand

Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

— Frank Herbert

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

— Mikhail Botvinnik

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves

— Bobby Fischer

Chess is not only knowledge and logic

— Alexander Alekhine

Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.

— Kenneth Rogoff

The way you have to think in chess is good for everyday thinking, really, especially for brothers in the urban community who never take…

— Rza

Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks…

— Stanley Kubrick

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental…

— Vladimir Kramnik

The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe - and as deadly.

— Katherine Neville

Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.

— Jennifer Shahade