Aliens Quote by Garry Kasparov

Chess can open up a kid's brain, and develop it in a playful creative way. They can learn playfully about creative, strategic, and logical…

— Judit Polgar

Chess is, in essence, a game for children. Computers have exacerbated the trends towards youth because they now have an immensely powerful tool at…

— Nigel Short

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

— Che Guevara

You playing chess well is just a reflection of your inner thought process and your ability to maintain discipline throughout. If we can teach…

— Maurice Ashley

If the kids get a good grasp of what the main lessons are for chess after two or three years of staying with the…

— Maurice Ashley

There are some things we do much better than computers, but since most of chess is tactically based they do many things better than…

— Viswanathan Anand

Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.

— Garry Kasparov

I do hope in Ireland children in schools can experience the richness of chess and it's positive effects.

— Judit Polgar

Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills.

— Susan Polgar

In an age when schools are facing significant budgetary restraints, there is a greater need than ever to make chess available to as many…

— Garry Kasparov

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully…

— Emanuel Lasker

It's important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally think too…

— Viswanathan Anand