I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
Magnus Carlsen
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
Marcel Duchamp
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone’s hand off if he puts it in my mouth
Wilhelm Steinitz
Agon was just sold for one pound and the reputation of Ilyumzhinov’s FIDE is worth even less than that.
Garry Kasparov 2014
I’ve been playing chess professionally for 35 years! It’s a long time, and when people can still say that they enjoy my chess, that’s great.
Nigel Short 2016