Believe Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

— Raymond Chandler

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

— Jose Raul Capablanca

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

— Raymond Chandler

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

— Anonymous

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

— David Bronstein

The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by…

— Benjamin Franklin

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

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

— Che Guevara

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely.

— Reuben Fine

Chess is imagination.

— David Bronstein

There is nothing like chess to keep the brain smart, and give it a workout.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger