Quotes about chess

Life's too short for chess.

— Henry J. Byron

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

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

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

— Gary Kasparov

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

— Nigel Short