Quotes about chess

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"Life's too short for chess."

Byron, Henry J. on chess

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"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."

Duchamp, Marcel on chess

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"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."

Duchamp, Marcel on chess