Alive Quote by Maurice Ashley

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 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 good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium.…

— Peter Abelard

Chess is imagination.

— David Bronstein

I'm not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while, you can…

— Hannu Rajaniemi

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved…

— Garry Kasparov

There's just a lot of really great life lessons that you can take out of chess... I think that's one of my favorite parts…

— Aaron Gordon

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

— David Bronstein

So chess is kind of this nice thing that I have no real aspiration for. It's just a frivolous thing I can enjoy.

— Michelle Zauner

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

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

I love chess. Having to concentrate, to play against someone else, strategy - having to think ahead. I think all of that is very…

— Carlos Alcaraz