Albert Einstein Quotes

Chess is a cold bath for the mind

Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess.

Life is a kind of chess.

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.

Chess is a sad waste of brains.

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

Chess demands total concentration

Chess is not a game, but a disease.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

You know, if I'm in a bad mood, I always look at the chessboard, just to find something that can cheer me up.

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

Chess is a curse upon a man.

All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.

If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life.

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.