Ability Quote by Garry Kasparov

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

— Garry Kasparov

According to research, test scores improved by 17.3% for students regularly engaged in chess classes, compared with only 4.6% for children participating in other…

— Susan Polgar

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

— Che Guevara

Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized...

— 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

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

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

“They agree that chess training only improves chess skills but disagree that classroom training (almost) only improves classroom skills.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

There are two ways to have educational chess in schools, either through after school programs or using chess as a tool in classrooms to…

— Judit Polgar

A lifetime in not enough to learn everything about chess.

— Alexander Alekhine