• A man of high principles is someone who can watch a chess game without passing comment.~ Chinese Proverb
  • Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.~ Alexander Alekhine
  • Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.~ Max Euwe
  • Chess is intellectual gymnastics.~ Wilhelm Steinitz
  • Chess is life.~ Bobby Fischer
  • Chess is mental torture.~ Garry Kasparov
  • Chess is not for timid souls.~ Wilhelm Steinitz
  • Chess is not only knowledge and logic.~ Alexander Alekhine
  • Chess is ruthless: you’ve got to be prepared to kill people.~ Nigel Short
  • I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art — and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.~ Marcel Duchamp
  • I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.~ Alexander Alekhine
  • Life’s too short for chess.~ Henry J. Byron
  • Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.~ G. K. Chesterton
  • The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem. I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.~ Marcel Duchamp
  • Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.~ Gary Kasparov

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