Chess is ludicrously difficult …Stephen Fry
Chess is an earnest exercise of the mind …Thomas Cogan
Chess is one long regret …Stephen Lealock
Chess is a sad waste of brains …Sir Walter Scott
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever …George Bernard Shaw
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency …Raymond Chandler
Chess is not a game, but a disease …Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Chess is an innocent and intellectual amusement after the mind has been engrossed with too much care or study …Hassan of Basra
Chess, like love, is infectious at any age …Salo Flohr
Chess is a beautiful mistress …Bent Larsen
(Chess puzzles are like masturbation but) playing chess is like making love …George Steiner
Chess is as much a mystery as women …Cecil Purdy
Chess is a jealous lover …John Healy
Chess is vanity …Alexander Alekhine
Chess is one of the sins of pride …John Bromyard
Chess is thinking about what chess is …David Bronstein
Chess is life …Bobby Fischer
Chess is like life …Boris Spassky
Chess is indeed like life …Stephen Fry
Chess is my life, but my life isn’t just chess …Anatoly Karpov
Chess is my job and fills the main part of my life …Alexei Shirov
Chess is most certainly not my life …Tony Miles
Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles …Garry Kasparov
Chess is a challenge, a battle …Terry Marsh
Chess is a fight …Emanuel Lasker
Chess is a blood sport …Jon Speelman
Chess is ruthless: you’ve got to be prepared to kill people …Nigel Short
Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and excludes chance …Richard Réti
Chess is a game of courteous aggression …Julian Barnes
Chess is a game of war …Anthony Saidy and Norman Lessing
Chess is a confrontation …Simon Barnes
Chess is a gladiatorial contest …Raymond Keene
Chess is a test of wills …Paul Keres
Chess is a cure for diarrhea and erysipelas …A mistranslation of Herodotus
Chess is a cure for headaches …John Maynard Keynes
Chess is first of all art …Mikhail Tal
Chess is the art of battle for the victorious battle of art …Savielly Tartakower
Chess is the art of analysis …Mikhail Botvinnik
Chess is the art which expresses the beauty of logic …Mikhail Botvinnik
Chess is the art of human reason …Gustavus Selenius
Chess is not only knowledge and logic …Alexander Alekhine
Chess is an art appearing in the form of a game …Soviet Encyclopedia
Chess is everything – art, science, and sport …Anatoly Karpov
Chess is just a game …Lajos Portisch
Chess is a combination of ten games …Miguel Najdorf
Chess is only a game, and not to be classed with science or the arts …Emanuel Lasker
Chess is a game of skill and not of genius …William Hazlitt
Chess is undoubtedly the same sort of art as painting or sculpture …José Raul Capablanca
Chess is a game in its essence, an art in its form, and a science in its execution …Baron Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa
Chess is an almost perfect combination of art, investigative science, knowledge, and inspiration …Raymond Keene
Chess is too difficult to be a game, and not serious enough to be a science or an art …Napoleon
Chess is not just a game; it bears an international significance …Jeremy Hanley MP
Chess is not a science …Henri Poincaré
Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for …Hans Ree
Chess is the most exciting game in the world …Irving Chernev
Chess is the most interesting game that exists …Lothar Schmid
Chess is the most intelligent thing in the universe …David Norwood
Chess is the game which reflects most honour on human wit …Voltaire
Chess is one of the noblest inventions of the human mind …Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad
Chess is eminently and emphatically the philosopher’s game …Paul Morphy
Chess is the most beautiful and reasonable of all games …Mme de Sévigné
Chess is the fairest of all games …Isaac Bashevis Singer
Chess is a fine entertainment …Leo Tolstoy
Chess is an exercise full of delights …Arthur Saul
Chess is not merely an idle amusement: life is a kind of chess …Ben Franklin
Chess is a game of intellect and character over the open board; chess is a game of life …Frank Marshall
Chess is a game for strong people with strong character …Mikhail Botvinnik
Chess is a big time sport …Tony Miles
Chess is a sport. A violent sport …Marcel Duchamp
Chess is imagination …David Bronstein
Chess is work …Walter Browne
Chess is a cold bath for the mind …Andrew Bonar Law
Chess is an exercise full of delights …Arthur Saul
Chess is a hothouse where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life …Edward Morgan Forster
Chess is imagination …David Bronstein
There is no other game so esteemed, so profound and so venerable as chess; in the realm of play it stands alone in dignity …Ely Culbertson
For surely, of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable …Assiac
There are two classes of people; those who are content to yield to circumstance, and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances and who play chess …Mortimer Collins
In answering the question, “Which is the greater game, Chess or Checkers,” I must, in all frankness, favor Chess …Newell W. Banks Blindfold Checker Champion of the World
The poorest chess player is more to be envied than the most favored servant of the Golden Calf; for the latter grovels all his life long in the mire of materialism; while the former dwells high aloft, in the bright realms of imagination and poetry …Weiss
Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and God endows it with its blessed power of making people happy …Weiss
Could we look into the head of a chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion …Alfred Binet
The game of chess possesses a literature which in contents probably exceeds that of all other games combined …H. J. R. Murray
The real lives of dazzlingly brilliant chess geniuses are sometimes hopelessly dull …Reuben Fine
A person that will take back a move at chess will pick a pocket …Fenton
First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy! …Aron Nimzowitsch
It is not a move, even the best move, that you must seek, but a realizable plan …Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do …Gerald Abrahams
“It’s a great game of chess that’s being played all over the world.” …Lewis Carroll (Through The Looking Glass)
The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made …Savielly Tartakower
Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness …Siegbert Tarrasch
Chess is the touchstone of the intellect …Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Chess is both profoundly trivial and trivially profound: a universe simultaneously closed and unbounded …George Steiner
Chess is not for timid souls …Wilhelm Steinitz
Chess is a place where I’m going to enjoy myself …John Cage
Chess is a powerful weapon of intellectual culture …Slogan for 1924 All-Union Congress of Soviet Union
Chess is the struggle against error …Johannes Zukertort
Chess is a game of bad moves …Andy Soltis
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders …Savielly Tartakower
Chess is the sublimated fite …par excellence Anthony Saidy and Norman Lessing
Chess is a mime of the family romance and of the Oedipal drama …Alexander Cockburn
Chess is a contest between two men in which there is considerable ego involvement …Reuben Fine
Chess is a pursuit crammed with tension and emotion …Anthony Saidy and Norman Lessing
Chess is the movement of pieces eating each other …Marcel Duchamp
Chess is a dromenon …Frank Vigor Morley
Chess is an international language …Edward Lasker
Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe …Indian Proverb
Chess is a validation of stupidity …Totalle Le Vezfleaux
Chess is fun …Luke McShane
Chess is me …Salvador Dali
Chess is perfect …Jace D. Albao
Chess is a game of skill for two played with figures or men of different kinds which are moved on a chequered board …Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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