Arctic Quote by Michael Basman

Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and…

— Paul Morphy

The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All…

— Garry Kasparov

In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop…

— Alexander Kotov

All Chess players should have a hobby

— Savielly Tartakower

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

Life is too short for chess.

— Lord Byron

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

A form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one…

— Siegbert Tarrasch

The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in…

— Richard Reti

A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are…

— Garry Kasparov

It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual carping care…

— Richard Reti

“To many people chess is an extreme sport. It requires a lot of thinking.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova