Chess Championship Talk

Famous quotes containing the words chess 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)

“If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)