Advertising agency Quote by Raymond Chandler

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

— Raymond Chandler

Chess is a sad waste of brains.

— Walter Scott

[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 an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

— Che Guevara

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

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 there is a world of intellectual values.

— Gerald Abrahams

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

— Vasily Smyslov

Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being…

— George Steiner

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

— Anatoly Karpov