Beautiful Quote by Marcel Duchamp

The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not…

— Vladimir Kramnik

Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.

— Jennifer Shahade

If you talk to some of the older players, they definitely say they see beauty in certain games. In my case, there are certain…

— Hikaru Nakamura

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in…

— Vladimir Kramnik

The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic.

— Boris Gelfand

The center of the chessboard is a magnet, which pulls to itself all the pieces. Therefore the most beautiful and amazing moves, for me,…

— Ashot Nadanian

Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks…

— Stanley Kubrick

I have frequently stated that I regard chess as an art form, where creativity prevails over other factors.

— Vasily Smyslov

When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical,…

— Vladimir Kramnik

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental…

— Vladimir Kramnik

Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.

— Mikhail Tal

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.

— Samuel Reshevsky