Blunders Quote by Lubomir Kavalek

Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.

— William Hartston

Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.

— Garry Kasparov

Chess holds deep wisdoms of the people. It is truly an image of life, the reflection of human fate that has shown us the…

— Pope John Paul II

Chess is mental torture.

— Garry Kasparov

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

— H. G. Wells

Chess is a curse upon a man.

— H. G. Wells

Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence of surging…

— Mark Dvoretsky

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

— Albert Einstein

The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.

— Garry Kasparov

Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins…

— Ray Bradbury

Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself…

— Wilhelm Steinitz

The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his…

— Albert Einstein