Ahead Quote by Daniel Negreanu

Chess is a great training ground for poker players because it's a math-based game, much like backgammon is.

— Daniel Negreanu

In poker, you want to play the weaker guys. In chess, it's the opposite.

— Hikaru Nakamura

Playing fast and aggressive poker can help manufacture chips out of thin air and is one element of the game that separates the great…

— Phil Hellmuth

Playing chess has many aspects that can be useful in everyday situations like planning, concentration and combinations. You learn to win but also to…

— Judit Polgar

Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your…

— Magnus Carlsen

I play a lot of chess, just to a bog-average level. But I find it stimulates your mind with all the combinations of different…

— Kurt Maflin

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to…

— Garry Kasparov

You can't follow or understand the game unless you play chess yourself, unlike poker which you can pick up in five minutes.

— Hikaru Nakamura

Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium.…

— Peter Abelard

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.

— Samuel Reshevsky

Poker is a skill game pretending to be a chance game.

— James Altucher

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