Capable Quote by Luke McShane

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 a sport. A violent sport.

— Marcel Duchamp

Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

— Richard Reti

The game of chess is a metaphor for life... it teaches you strategy and it teaches you the value of knowing where you are,…

— Lupita Nyong'o

Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

— Voltaire

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

— Reuben Fine

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

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

— Siegbert Tarrasch

A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of…

— Emanuel Lasker

Chess is a game where all different sorts of people can come together, not a game in which people are divided because of their…

— Hikaru Nakamura