Chess Quote by Kurt Richter

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

— George Bernard Shaw

Chess is a game of bad moves.

— Andrew Soltis

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

— Savielly Tartakower

Chess is imagination.

— David Bronstein

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess.

— Woody Allen

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 fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

— Richard Reti

Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you…

— George Eliot

In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.

— Savielly Tartakower

Chess is not a game, but a disease.

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Chess computers do not sweat during time pressure and commit costly blunders. Furthermore, the strength of these programs (over and above their faultless recall…

— Ira Carmen