Chess Association Talk

Famous quotes containing the words chess, association and/or talk:

“Of all my Russian books, The Defense contains and diffuses the greatest “warmth”Mwhich may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract chess is supposed to be.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)