Chess is 99 percent tactics.

Richard Teichmann German chess master

Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

Charles Dickens English Writer

For surely of all the drugs in the world, Chess must be the most permanently pleasurable.

Heinrich Fraenkel Author, Alias: Assiac

Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the ties which link Chess with the human soul.

Al-Mas'udi Historian

Chess is above all, a fight!

Emanuel Lasker German Chess Player

Chess is everything: art, science and sport.

Anatoly Karpov Soviet Chess Grandmaster

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

David Bronstein Soviet Chess Grandmaster

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

Blaise Pascal French Mathematician

An hour’s history of two minds is well told in a game of chess.

José Raúl Capablanca Cuban Chess Player

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Charles Buxton Author and Philanthropist

Chess isn't always competitive. Chess can also be beautiful.

Walter Tevis American Novelist

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

Savielly Tartakower Polish-French Chess Player

Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists.

Mikhail Botvinnik Chess Grandmaster

All I want to do, ever, is just play Chess.

Bobby Fischer American Chess Grandmaster

The only thing chess players have in common is chess.

Lodewijk Prins Dutch Chess Player

When you see a good move, look for a better one.

Emanuel Lasker German Chess Player

When you’re lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war.

Aristotle Greek philosopher

There is no remorse like the remorse of chess.

H. G. Wells Author

Chess is the art of analysis.

Mikhail Botvinnik Chess Grandmaster

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

Albert Einstein Theoretical Physicist

Every chess master was once a beginner.

Irving Chernev Chess Author

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

Benjamin Franklin Founding Father of USA