Asks Quote by Wendell Phillips

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

— Wayne Brady

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the…

— Viktor Korchnoi

“The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

— David Bronstein

Chess is not only knowledge and logic

— Alexander Alekhine

[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

In chess, as played by a good player, logic and imagination must go hand in hand, compensating each other.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

There is nothing like chess to keep the brain smart, and give it a workout.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Common sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic

— Antoine Arnauld

Chess is imagination.

— David Bronstein

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws…

— Thomas Huxley

Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized...

— Emanuel Lasker