"There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman"

"The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time"

"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing"

"I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved"

"The America's Cup is like a chess game on water, with boats as the pieces and tactics as the moves"

"I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any"

"Chess is the gymnasium of the mind"

"Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game"

"Chess is not for timid souls"

"Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time"