Intellectual Game Quotes

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

Chess is a game of stimulation.

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.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.

For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on.

Bridge is a game for the undivided intellect.