Encourage Chess.

Chess enhances the development of many abilities in children and elders, like problem-solving skills, social and relationship-building skills and thinking skills. Here are some chess quotations from which one can gain wisdom and love to play chess, a game so popular in every household in the past, but unfortunately being neglected and forgotten these days:  

 “Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are accumulated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life!” ― Allan Rufus.

“Chess makes men wiser and clear-sighted.” – Vladimir Putin

“Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.” – Blaise Pascal

“As proved by evidence, chess is more lasting in its being and presence than all books and achievements; the only game that belongs to all people and all ages; of which none knows the divinity that bestowed it on the world, to slay boredom, to sharpen the senses, to exhilarate the spirit.” – Stefan Zweig

 “In life, as in chess, one’s own pawns block one’s way.  A man’s wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him.” – Charles Buxton

“Unlike other games in which money is the end and aim, chess recommends itself to the wise by the fact that its mimic battles are fought for no prize but honour. It is eminently and emphatically the philosopher’s game.” – Paul Morphy

“The beauty of chess is it can be whatever you want it to be. It transcends language, age, race, religion, politics, gender, and socioeconomic background. Whatever your circumstances, anyone can enjoy a good fight to the death over the chessboard.” – Simon Williams

“Chess is the struggle against the error.” – Johannes Zukertort

“Every chess master was once a beginner.” – Irving Chernev

“In life, as in chess, forethought wins.” – Charles Buxton

“When you see a good move, look for a better one.” – Emanuel Lasker

“Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.” – Ralph Charell

 “Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.” – Albert Einstein

“Chess is a war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent’s mind.” – Bobby Fischer

 “I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player’s personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.” – Vladimir Kramnik

“The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it… Life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with.” – Benjamin Franklin

 “Chess doesn’t drive people mad, it keeps mad people sane.” – Bill Hartston

 “Chess is life in miniature. Chess is a struggle, chess battles.” – Garry Kasparov

“I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.” – Marcel Duchamp

 “For in the idea of chess and the development of the chess mind we have a picture of the intellectual struggle of mankind.” – Richard Réti

 “I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.” – Bobby Fischer

“Play the opening like a book, the middlegame like a magician, and the endgame like a machine.” – Rudolph Spielmann

“I used to attack because it was the only thing I knew. Now I attack because I know it works best.” – Garry Kasparov

“It is my style to take my opponent and myself onto unknown grounds. A game of chess is not an examination of the knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.” – David Bronstein

“Chess is rarely a game of ideal moves. Almost always, a player faces a series of difficult consequences whichever move he makes.” – David Shenk

 “After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived.” – Edmar Mednis

“Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half.” – Jan Timman

“Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all.” – Mikhail Chigorin

“Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.” – Savielly Tartakower

 “You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.” – José Raúl Capablanca

 “Pawns are the soul of the game.” – François-André Danican Philidor

“The passed pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient.” – Aron Nimzowitsch

“Modern chess is too much concerned with things like pawn structure. Forget it, checkmate ends the game.” – Nigel Short

“Pawn endings are to chess what putting is to golf.” – Cecil Purdy

 “Nobody ever won a chess game by resigning.” – Savielly Tartakower

“The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.” – Savielly Tartakower

“It’s always better to sacrifice your opponent’s men.” – Savielly Tartakower

“One doesn’t have to play well, it’s enough to play better than your opponent.” – Siegbert Tarrasch

“Up to this point, White has been following well-known analysis. But now he makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head.” – Siegbert Tarrasch

“Of chess, it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess.” – William Napier

“Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.” – Hans Ree

“A chess game in progress is… a cosmos unto itself, fully insulated from an infant’s cry, an erotic invitation, or war.” – David Shenk

“It will be cheering to know that many people are skilful chess players, though in many instances their brains, in a general way, compare unfavourably with the cognitive faculties of a rabbit.” – James Mortimer

 “The only thing chess players have in common is chess.” – Lodewijk Prins

“Those who say they understand chess, understand nothing.” – Robert Hübner

“One bad move nullifies forty good ones.” – Bernhard Horwitz

“If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he’s worse off.” – Nigel Short