Chess Quote by Garry Kasparov

Botvinnik was a killer in chess.

— Yuri Averbakh

By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides…

— Garry Kasparov

Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being…

— George Steiner

“We are men who find chess fascinating. Did you expect our lives to be secretly interesting?”

— Noah Boyd

Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess.

— Vasily Smyslov

The game of chess is a metaphor for life... it teaches you strategy and it teaches you the value of knowing where you are,…

— Lupita Nyong'o

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

Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.

— Yuri Razuvaev

A chess problem is simply an exercise in pure mathematics.

— G. H. Hardy

The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in…

— Richard Reti

“The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Chess reflects the real world in miniature. Endeavor, struggle, success, and defeat - they are part of each game ever played.

— Bruce Pandolfini