Battle Quote by Jose Raul Capablanca

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.

— Emanuel Lasker

Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an…

— Judit Polgar

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Chess is imagination.

— David Bronstein

Chess is, above all, a fight.

— Emanuel Lasker

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

— Anatoly Karpov

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

No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

— Samuel Reshevsky

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

— David Bronstein

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

— Wilhelm Steinitz