British Chess Championship/bca Challenge Cup 1866%e2%80%931872

Famous quotes containing the words british, chess, challenge and/or cup:

    The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
    Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

    The trick, which requires the combined skills of a tightrope walker and a cordon bleu chef frying a plain egg, is to take your [preteen] daughter seriously without taking everything she says and does every minute seriously.
    —Stella Chess (20th century)

    The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.
    John Steinbeck (1902–1968)

    In poorer lands
    No one touches the water of life.
    It has no taste
    And though it refreshes absolutely
    It is a cup that must also pass
    Until everybody
    Gets some advantage....
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)