Chess can teach you a lot of things. From playing for the advantage and making every move with a purpose, it can inspire you to be more strategic in life.
Chess can help you learn how to spot patterns for success and be a little bit creative so you can conquer bigger and better things. It can encourage you to seize every opening that appears, no matter how big or small it is.
And you know what else?
Chess is a great teacher of flexibility. It’ll make you realize that not everything goes exactly as planned. You need to know how to adjust so that you can continue with your goals.
I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player’s personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing. – Vladimir Kramnik
I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists. – Marcel Duchamp
Unlike other games in which lucre is the end and aim, [chess] recommends itself to the wise by the fact that its mimic battles are fought for no prize but honour. It is eminently and emphatically the philosopher’s game. – Paul Morphy
The beauty of chess is it can be whatever you want it to be. It transcends language, age, race, religion, politics, gender and socioeconomic background. Whatever your circumstances, anyone can enjoy a good fight to the death over the chess board. – Simon Williams
Chess is the struggle against error. – Johannes Zukertort
Every chess master was once a beginner. – Irving Chernev
The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it… For Life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with. – Benjamin Franklin
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. – Ralph Charell
Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted. – Vladimir Putin
Chess is the gymnasium of the mind. – Blaise Pascal
Chess doesn’t drive people mad, it keeps mad people sane. – Bill Hartston
Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer. – Albert Einstein
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In life, as in chess, one’s own pawns block one’s way. A man’s very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him. – Charles Buxton
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent’s mind. – Bobby Fischer
As proved by evidence, [chess is] more lasting in its being and presence than all books and achievements; the only game that belongs to all people and all ages; of which none knows the divinity that bestowed it on the world, to slay boredom, to sharpen the senses, to exhilarate the spirit. – Stefan Zweig
Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy. – Siegbert Tarrasch
Play the opening like a book, the middlegame like a magician, and the endgame like a machine. – Rudolph Spielmann
Chess is life in miniature. Chess is struggle, chess is battles. – Garry Kasparov
For in the idea of chess and the development of the chess mind we have a picture of the intellectual struggle of mankind. – Richard Réti
When you see a good move, look for a better one. – Emanuel Lasker
There is no remorse like the remorse of chess. – H. G. Wells
Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment. – Garry Kasparov
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