Chess Quotes
- Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks. — Jennifer Shahade
- Chess is not relaxing; it's stressful even if you win. — Jennifer Shahade
- Chess is the touchstone of intellect. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Chess is a cure for headaches. — John Maynard Keynes
- One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic… — Judit Polgar
- Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic. — Mikhail Botvinnik
- For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game. — Moses Mendelssohn
- Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess. — William Ewart Napier
- In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to… — Pal Benko
- Chess is a test of wills. — Paul Keres
- Chess is eminently and emphatically the philospher's game. — Paul Morphy
- Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more… — Paul Morphy
- Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance. — Richard Reti
- Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression. — Reuben Fine
- Chess, like love, is infectious at any age. — Salo Flohr
- Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. — Savielly Tartakower
- Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really… — Siegbert Tarrasch
- Chess is one long regret. — Stephen Leacock
- I have frequently stated that I regard chess as an art form, where creativity prevails over other factors. — Vasily Smyslov
- My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed… — Vasily Smyslov