Chess Quotations

It is a game too troublesome for some men's braines, too full of anxiety, all out as bad as study; and besides it is a testy cholericke game and very offensive to him that looseth the mate. – Robert Burton

Chess is so interesting in itself, that those who have leisure for such diversions cannot find one that is more innocent, but advantageous, to the vanquished as well as the victor. – Benjamin Franklin

Chess is a good way to learn, to keep the brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium. Those who see chess merely as a means of self-proof make the game experience uncomfortable and drive many of the better, more sensitive brains to analysis, correspondence, problems, studies and the like. – Abelard

Chess, which severely eliminates accident, is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life. – E. M. Forster

Chess is the touchstone of the intellect. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe