Chess is mental torture.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.
Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course, chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have a very strong nervous system, and then you must be well prepared; you must be able to work a lot.
It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.
Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble.
Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.
Chess is not only knowledge and logic.
Chess is life.
Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.