Approach Quote by Norbert Wiener

The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with…

— Norbert Wiener

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

— George Bernard Shaw

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully…

— Emanuel Lasker

I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty poor players.…

— Harry Golombek

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

— Henri Poincare

In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from…

— Stanislaw Ulam

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

— Raymond Chandler

Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments…

— Norbert Wiener

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

— Raymond Chandler

A chess problem is simply an exercise in pure mathematics.

— G. H. Hardy

In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In…

— Emanuel Lasker

Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your…

— Magnus Carlsen