“Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.” – Blaise Pascal
“The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.” – Savielly Tartakower
“Chess is like war on a board.” – Bobby Fischer
“When I have white, I win because I am white; when I have black, I win because I am Bogoljubov.” – Efim Bogoljubov
“All I want to do, ever, is just play chess.” – Bobby Fischer
“The essence of chess is thinking about what chess is.” – David Bronstein
“A chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third when you know you’re going to lose!” – Savielly Tartakower
“Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.” – Mikhail Botvinnik
“In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.” – Vasily Smyslov.
