this is only a survey

Do you believe that most of the chess players is an artist (drawing, painting, and other related to visual art ).....

just reply with yes or no? so that i can get the percentage. i will post the result after 3 days.....

result:

NO    57.14 %   vote

YES   26.98 %   vote

Abstention 15.88 %   vote

No.

This is because chess is facts-oriented, and either something workd or it doesn't. Chess players use the left side of their brain, while artists use the right side.

Yes.

Capablanca was an artist. The greatest chess players were/are artists in that their games have form and flow like a great piece of art. If it weren't artistic in nature I know I wouldn't enjoy chess. Being a full-time professional musician, I see the parallels of chess and music in every game of the great masters I've studied.

Every symphony has an introduction (opening), thematic material (analysis and approach to an opponent), development (development of material), a coda (endgame), and a finale (checkmate!). 

The same could be said for pretty much everything.

My answer is No.  Most of some Chess players may be but not 'the chess player' in general.

no

I can't speak for other chess players and how they approach their games, but I think a challenging game between two equally-skilled opponents can approach the level of art. Just because chess is goverened by rules does not mean it can't be artful. And game rules are not synonymous with facts, by the way.

As for me, I love to draw, write, and take pictures. So yes.

no

yes

No.

It is a very complex game, and therefore, people easily confuse it with being artistic.  I haven't studied the subject in depth, but it should be said that chess combinations are finite, while most artistic forms are not.  Because the combinations of chess are finite, but vast, it has a similar look and feel when it hasn't been explored the way great players have explored it(thus, chess960, adding a great number more of combinations.)  Anyway, GL with your survey.

yes!

chess players paint the game in their minds before putting it on the board just like a painter. chess players think up abstract positions and look to create beautiful combinations. How is this not art?

No. 

Yes

This is really all in the way you look at it. Art is a statement made through self expression. That's it. So if you express yourself or make a statement on the board, and you choose to view it as such it's Art. If you don't choose to do so, and play mechanically with no self expression than it's not. Anything can be an artistic statement.

It depends on how you define art. If it's creating something beautiful (to watch, analyze.. etc) than yes. But than riding a horse is an art, so as playing tennis, banji jumping and Tic Tac Toe. They are not so complicated as chess but who is to say what level of complication is required for an art!

So no, for me chess isn't art. Art is a more general form of transfering emotions, like moving pictures (films), painting, writing, music.. But I would definitely call chess itself a work of art.

No

chess is not art or I would not play. I hate art. I detest art.

No.

Me and my friend play chess, and we are best at Maths. Our coach is Maths teacher. Lots of GMs were professors or doctors of Maths.

No

No.

NO

no.

Nope