Appeals Quote by Magnus Carlsen

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

— Garry Kasparov

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

— Anatoly Karpov

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

— Jose Raul Capablanca

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never…

— Benjamin Franklin

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 a sport. A violent sport.

— Marcel Duchamp

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

— Garry Kasparov

Ultimately chess is just chess - not the best thing in the world and not the worst thing in the world, but there is…

— W. C. Fields

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

— Richard Reti

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

— Emanuel Lasker

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

— Garry Kasparov