Chess Quote by Mikhail Botvinnik

It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.

— Savielly Tartakower

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

— Alexander Alekhine

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

— Anatoly Karpov

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

— Robert Schumann

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

— Jose Raul Capablanca

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the people who really enjoy chess are the dubs and the duffers, experts who have resigned their…

— Alfred Kreymborg

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

— Reuben Fine

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

— Magnus Carlsen

For me, chess is not a profession, it is a way of life, a passion. People may feel that I have conquered the peak…

— Viswanathan Anand

…the violin — that most human of all instruments…

— Louisa May Alcott

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