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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.

— Thomas Huxley

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✓Similar Perspectives

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

— Max Euwe

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

— Bobby Fischer

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

— Marcel Duchamp

Chess is life.

— Bobby Fischer

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

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

— Alexander Alekhine

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.

— Marcel Duchamp

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate!

— Steve Breen

Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

— Anatoly Karpov

✗Opposing Perspectives

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