(183 quotes found)
“The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.”
Alexander Alekhine
“Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess”
Irving Chernev
“Chess is mental torture.”
Garry Kasparov
“Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.”
Nigel Short
“Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed”
John Fowles
“I had lunch with a chess champion the other day. I knew he was a chess champion because it took him 20 minutes to pass the salt.”
Eric Sykes
“Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.”
Felix Frankfurter
“Chess is intellectual gymnastics.”
Wilhelm Steinitz
“These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.”
Kobe Bryant
