Advertising Quote by Raymond Chandler

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

— Raymond Chandler

Chess is a sad waste of brains.

— Walter Scott

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 an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

— Che Guevara

[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

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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 everything: art, science, and sport.

— Anatoly Karpov

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

— Vasily Smyslov

Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.

— Hans Ree

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

— Reuben Fine