Asks Quote by Gregor Piatigorsky

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the people who really enjoy chess are the dubs and the duffers, experts who have resigned their…

— Alfred Kreymborg

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

— Magnus Carlsen

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

— Jose Raul Capablanca

For me, chess is at the same time a game, a sport, a science and an art. And perhaps even more than that,. There…

— Bent Larsen

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 a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy.

— Luke McShane

But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game.…

— Dorothy Dunnett

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

It's very encouraging that the game of chess is growing in the U.S. and is becoming more popular.

— Hikaru Nakamura

“When you consider that only an estimated 15 percent of the US population plays chess, its cultural prominence is extraordinary. It”

— Garry Kasparov

The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.

— Howard Staunton

Chess is eminently and emphatically the philospher's game.

— Paul Morphy