Chess quotes

Chess is in its essence a game, in its form an art, and in its execution a science.
Baron Tassilo Heydebrand und der Lasa

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

Chess is the game which reflects most honour on human wit.
Voltaire

Chess is eminently and emphatically the philosopher's game.
Paul Morphy

Chess is a sport. A violent sport.
Marcel Duchamp

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.
Indian proverb

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

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

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.
Marcel Duchamp