Chess Quotes

Life's too short for chess. - Henry J. Byron

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people. - Nigel Short

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