„Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.“

„You are not the first to be shocked and horrified by chess,” he assured her. “It is a curse of the intellect. It is a game for lunatics—or else it creates them.“

—  Fritz Leiber American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction 1910 - 1992

“The 64-Square Madhouse” (p. 74); originally published in If, May 1962
Short Fiction, A Pail of Air (1964)

„We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess. We must condemn once and for all the formula "chess for the sake of chess", like the formula "art for art's sake". We must organize shockbrigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan for chess.“

—  Nikolai Krylenko Russian revolutionary, politician and chess organiser 1885 - 1938

Krylenko on promoting chess in the Soviet Union. Quoted in Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: A Reassessment

„If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach
them how to use television.“

—  Umberto Eco Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist 1932 - 2016

„Rather than let the rejections deter you from your objectives, simply aim to learn what the rejections teach you.“

—  Nigel Cumberland British author and leadership coach 1967

Źródło: Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), p.35

„The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.“

—  Marcel Duchamp French painter and sculptor 1887 - 1968

quote from Marcel Duchamp, by Kynaston McShine, 1989; as quoted on Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp
posthumous

„You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.“

—  Роберт Фишер American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer 1943 - 2008

Radio Interview, January 27 2002 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_20_1.MP3
2000s

„You know, even more than playing chess, I dislike dealing with self-righteous chess players.“

—  Algis Budrys, książka Michaelmas

Źródło: Michaelmas (1977), Chapter 7 (p. 98)

„Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority.“

—  Gerry Spence American lawyer 1929

Źródło: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 14 : The Magical Weapon : Withholding Permission to Be Defeated, p. 160
Kontekst: Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority. Children are persons. They are small persons whose perfect souls have not yet been ground through the meat grinder of slavery.

„Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.“

—  Arturo Pérez-Reverte, książka The Flanders Panel

Źródło: The Flanders Panel

„My first goal is to create an attractive, interactive website that forms a community of chess lovers. I want to keep it light and keep people coming back ⎯ heavy on photos, humor, and simple chess tactics and strategies.“

—  Jennifer Shahade chess player 1980

Gothamist interview (2006)
Kontekst: My first goal is to create an attractive, interactive website that forms a community of chess lovers. I want to keep it light and keep people coming back ⎯ heavy on photos, humor, and simple chess tactics and strategies. I want to promote our top players to increase their visibility and their chances to make a living at chess.

„I love chess, and I didn't invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old chess is dying, it really is dead. A lot of people come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. I'm really not interested in that. I want to keep the old chess flavor. I want to keep the old chess game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorization and prearrangement like it is today.“

—  Роберт Фишер American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer 1943 - 2008

Radio Interview, June 27 1999 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_08_3.MP3
1990s

„Tournament chess is not relaxing. It's stressful, even if you win.“

—  Jennifer Shahade chess player 1980

ChessBase.com - The strongest native-born American woman" (3 August 2003) http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1093

„It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King.“

—  Terry Pratchett, książka The Shepherd's Crown

Źródło: The Shepherd's Crown

„I'm a chess player; I play chess.“

—  Floyd Mayweather Jr. American boxer 1977

2010s, 2015, Interview with Jim Gray (September 2015)

„Nothing … will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.“

—  Samuel Johnson, książka The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Źródło: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 6

„…in 2000, when I defeated Alexei Shirov at the World Chess Championship in Teheran to become the first Indian ever to win the title.“

—  Viswanathan Anand Indian chess player 1969

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Reimagining India: Unlocking the Potential of Asia’s Next Superpower

„Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly.“

—  Ashot Nadanian chess player 1972

Interview at S'pore Chess News, 23 August 2010 http://www.singaporechessnews.com/interview_ashot_nadanian.html

„If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama any more. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?“

—  Neil Gaiman, książka Fragile Things

From the Monarch in the Glenn
Fragile Things (2006)

„The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.“

—  Elbert Hubbard American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul 1856 - 1915