Chess

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

• 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 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

• The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. --Thomas Huxley

• Chess is mental torture. --Garry Kasparov

• ...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardor of a lover, the humility of a disciple. --Herbert Russell Wakefield

• 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 a fathead and feudal game --Georges Perec (in a book promoting Go )

• Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box --Italian Proverb

• Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost.
  • Vladimir Kramnik , world champion 2000-present in an interview on 21 June 2004 with the German magazine Der Spiegel