Art Quote by Emanuel Lasker

By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be…

— Emanuel Lasker

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

— Anatoly Karpov

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

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

Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess is art"…

— Alexander Morozevich

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote…

— Ben Kingsley

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved…

— Garry Kasparov

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like…

— Bobby Fischer

Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

— Richard Reti

Chess is the art of analysis.

— Mikhail Botvinnik