14. Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment. – V. E. Schwab
15. Chess: It’s like alcohol. It’s a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online. – Charles Krauthammer
16. Chess demolishes differences. It’s a language of different generations. – Judit Polgar
17. Chess is ruthless: you’ve got to be prepared to kill people. – Nigel Short
18. Each outing is its own game. You roll on your game plan. It is a different chess match each time you go out there. I just try to be prepared. – Jason Hammel
19. Chess is not for timid souls. – Wilhelm Steinitz
20. All I want to do, ever, is play chess. – Bobby Fischer
21. Spying is like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win – preferably a knight rather than a king or queen. – John Rhys-Davies
22. The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan. – Jason Reynolds
23. I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art – and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position. – Marcel Duchamp
24. Once you’re a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can’t get it completely out of your head. – Magnus Carlsen
25. Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. – Alexander Alekhine
26. I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly. – Magnus Carlsen
27. In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber. – Yuliya Snigir
28. Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable. – Hikaru Nakamura
29. Chess is mental torture. – Garry Kasparov
30. I think chess players are not always what you think them to be. Or maybe it’s our job to appear serious. – Anish Giri
31. Chess is changing. I hope chess is getting more popular, more spectacular. – Alexandra Kosteniuk
32. The great thing about chess is it’s a game for oneself. You don’t work on what you can’t control, you just work on yourself. And I think if more people did that, we’d all be a lot better off. – Daniel Naroditsky