Age Quote by Vlastimil Hort

Chess, like love, is infectious at any age.

— Salo Flohr

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself…

— Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is not a game, but a disease.

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Chess is a matter of vanity.

— Alexander Alekhine

Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.

— Garry Kasparov

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

— Anatoly Karpov

Chess holds deep wisdoms of the people. It is truly an image of life, the reflection of human fate that has shown us the…

— Pope John Paul II

One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an…

— Judit Polgar

Chess is imagination.

— David Bronstein

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

— Alexander Alekhine

The days when it was possible to win a serious game only by merit of sporting character or depth of chess understanding have vanished…

— Anatoly Karpov