Ability Quote by Mikhail Botvinnik

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

— Vasily Smyslov

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

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

— Jose Raul Capablanca

In chess, you have to bring all the pieces into the game. It is about development. In writing, you have to develop the story.

— Gza

Chess can open up a kid's brain, and develop it in a playful creative way. They can learn playfully about creative, strategic, and logical…

— Judit Polgar

Chess is imagination.

— David Bronstein

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

— Garry Kasparov

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

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

— Anatoly Karpov

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

— Emanuel Lasker

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