Art Quote by Vasily Smyslov

Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

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 a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved…

— Garry Kasparov

It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.

— Alexander Kotov

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

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

— Alexander Alekhine

Chess is more than a game or a mental training. It is a distinct attainment. I have always regarded the playing of chess and…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

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

— Emanuel Lasker

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

— David Bronstein

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

— Anatoly Karpov

My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became…

— Vasily Smyslov

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

— Garry Kasparov