Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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 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.
Chess is life.
I was world champion. For me, chess is my life. It is everything.
A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality.
Chess is intellectual gymnastics.
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.