Attractive Quote by Boris Spassky

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

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

— Garry Kasparov

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

— Magnus Carlsen

Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.

— Vitali Klitschko

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

When you watch chess, you don't see the four hours that the player spends preparing for a match ahead of time.

— Hikaru Nakamura

The world championship is a disputed title. You've got a situation like boxing. Speaking as a member of the chess world, it's extremely undignified.

— Yasser Seirawan

Ultimately chess is just chess - not the best thing in the world and not the worst thing in the world, but there is…

— W. C. Fields

I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.

— Anatoly Karpov

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

— Anatoly Karpov

Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live…

— Simen Agdestein

I love chess. Having to concentrate, to play against someone else, strategy - having to think ahead. I think all of that is very…

— Carlos Alcaraz