"In a gambit you give up a Pawn for the sake of getting a lost game" (Samuel Standige Boden)

 "Not all artists are Chess players, but all Chess players are artists" (Marcel Duchamp)

"If cunning alone were needed to excel, women would be the best Chess players" (Albin)

"Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity" (Vladimir Nabokov)

"Chess is the gymnasium of the mind" (Blaise Pascal)

"Winning isn't everything... but losing is nothing" (Mednis)

"Look at Garry Kasparov. After he loses, invariably he wins the next game. He just kills the next guy. That's something that we have to learn to be able to do" (Maurice Ashley)

"Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted" (Vladimir Putin)

"I believe that Chess possesses a magic that is also a help in advanced age. A rheumatic knee is forgotten during a game of Chess and other events can seem quite unimportant in comparison with a catastrophe on the chessboard" (Vlastimil Hort)

"Becoming successful at Chess allows you to discover your own personality. That's what I want for the kids I teach" (Saudin Robovic)

"Examine moves that smite! A good eye for smites is far more important than a knowledge of strategical principles" (Purdy)

"Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble" (Stanley Kubrick)

"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)

"Pawns: they are the soul of this game, they alone form the attack and defense" (Philidor)

When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war" (Aristotle)

"A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket" (Richard Fenton)

"Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf" (Cecil Purdy)

"Chess opens and enriches your mind" (Saudin Robovic)

"Chess is a terrific way for kids to build self image and self esteem" (Saudin Robovic)

"Chess is in its essence a game, in its form an art, and in its execution a science" (Baron Tassilo)

"Pawns are born free, yet they are everywhere in chains" (Rick Kennedy)

"It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan" (Eugene Znosko-Borovsky)

"Those who say they understand Chess, understand nothing" (Robert Hubner)

"You need not play well - just help your opponent to play badly" (Genrikh Chepukaitis)

"We must make sure that Chess will not be like a dead language, very interesting, but for a very small group" (Sytze Faber)

"He who takes the Queen's Knight's Pawn will sleep in the streets" (Anonymous)

"For surely, of all the drugs in the world, chess must be the most permanently pleasurable." (Unknown)

If drink is the curse of the working classes and work is the curse of the drinking classes then chess is the curse of the thinking classes. – J. Ross

Chess is a kind of mental alcohol… unless a man has supreme self-control. It is better that he should not learn to play chess. I have never allowed my children to learn it, for I have seen too much of its evil results. – Henry Blackburne

Chess is a sport. A violent sport. This detracts from its most artistic connections. One intriguing aspect of the game that does not imply artistic connotations is the geometrical patterns and variations of the actual set-up of the pieces in the combinative, tactical, strategical and positional sense. It is a sad means of expression though - somewhat like religious art - it is not very gay. If it is anything, it is a struggle. – Marcel Duchamp

Chess is an art appearing in the form of a game. –From a Soviet encyclopedia

Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation. – Vladimir Lenin

Chess is a good mistress but a bad master. – Gerald Abrahams

Chess is a beautiful mistress to whom we keep coming back, no matter how many times she rejects us. – Bent Larsen

Chess is one long regret. – Stephen Leacock

Chess is not a game but a disease. – Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Chess is to the mind, what physical exercise is to the body. – Kelly Atkins

Chess is the only sport where you remain competitive after sixty. – Eugene Martinovsky

Chess is too serious to be enjoyable, and too frivolous to be worth taking seriously. – Source Unknown

Chess is too much to be merely a game but too little to be anything more. – Source Unknown

Chess is just a rhyme without a reason. – Source Unknown

Chess is as much a mystery as women. – C. J. S. Purdy

Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for. – Hans Ree

Chess is a game. Chess is a battle. Chess is war. It is art, science, logic, and beauty. Chess is the ultimate contest between two minds. Chess is the mental torture of one's opponent, and the mental torture of oneself. Chess is drama. It is tragedy. It is tears and frustration. Chess is despair. Chess is laughter, joy, and triumph. Chess is a friendship formed through a contest. Chess is 16 pieces, 32 men, 64 squares. It is openings and endgames, tactics and strategy. Chess is combinations. Chess is planning. Chess is the sharpening of the mind, the exercise of the brain. Chess is thinking. Chess is pure thought. Chess is tension, toil, and strife. Chess is losing. Chess is winning. Chess is beating and being beaten. Chess is where all excuses fail. Chess is a hobby, a mania, a fixation. Chess is an addiction. Chess is a waste of time. Chess is a distraction. Chess is passion. Chess is truth. Chess is life. – Daniel White

You cannot play at chess if you are kind-hearted. - French Proverb

Life is too short for chess. - Byron

Every chess master was once a beginner. - Chernev

The pin is mightier than the sword. - Reinfeld

* If the student forces himself to examine all moves that smite, however absurd they may look at first glance, he is on the way to becoming a master of tactics. - Purdy

The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. - Reti

The middlegame I repeat is chess itself; chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc. - Znosko-Borovsky

"Chess is played with the mind and not with the hands!" (Renaud and Kahn)

"The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the Pawn structure" (Michael Stean)

"Openings teach you openings. Endgames teach you chess!" (Stephan Gerzadowicz)

"Excellence at Chess is one mark of a scheming mind" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"A bad day of Chess is better than any good day at work" (Anonymous)

"What would Chess be without silly mistakes?" (Kurt Richter)

 "You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what Chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other better ideas" (Stanley Kubrick)

"If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw" (Jeremy Silman)

"The only thing Chess players have in common is Chess" (Lodewijk Prins)

"The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world" (H.G. Wells)

"In blitz, the Knight is stronger than the Bishop" (Vlastimil Hort)

"When I have White, I win because I am white;When I have Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov" (Bogolyubov)

"One bad move nullifies forty good ones" (Horowitz)