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)
Chess is a black and white jungle. (Garry Kasparov)
Chess, with all its philosophical depth, its aesthetic appeal, is first of all a game in the best sense of the word; a game in which are revealed your intellect, character and will. (Boris Spassky)
Chess is eminently and emphatically the philosophers game. (Paul Morphy)
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind. (Bobby Fischer)
Chess is the game of the Gods. Infinite possibilities. (Vladimir Nabokov)
Chess is a kind of mental alcohol. (Henry Blackburne)
Chess is one of the noblest inventions of the human mind. (Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad)
Chess is vanity. (Alexander Alekhine)
Chess is a test of wills. (Paul Keres)
Chess is not a game but a disease. (Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman)
Chess is in its essence a game, in its form an art, and in its execution a science. (Baron Tassilo von Heyderbrand und der Lasa)
Chess is, above all, a fight. (Emanuel Lasker)
Chess is intellectual gymnastics. (Wilhem Steintz)
Chess is everything - art, science and sport. (Anatoly Karpov)
Chess is one long regret. (Stephen Leacock)
Chess, first of all, is art. (Mikhail Tal)
Chess is the struggle against error. (Johannes Zukertort)
Chess is the most exciting game in the world. (Irving Chernov)
Chess is the art of analysis. (Mikhail Botvinnik)
Chess is a terrible game. (Siegbert Tarrasch)
Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. (Savielly Tartakower)
Chess is a sad waste of brains. (Sir Walter Scott)
Chess is imagination. (David Bronstein)
Chess is a game of quiet intensity. (Ralph L. Hall)
Chess is the art of human reason. (Gustavus Selenius)
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life. (Edward Morgan Foster)
Chess is a cold bath for the mind. (Sir John Simon)
Chess is ruthless; you've got to be prepared to kill people. (Nigel Short)
Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for. (Hans Ree)
Chess is as much a mystery as women. (Cecil Purdy)
Chess is a curse upon a man. (H.G.Wells)
Chess is a beautiful mistress to whom we keep coming back, no matter how many times she rejects us. (Bent Larsen)
Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. (Indian Proverb)
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)
