Chess World Champion

Famous quotes containing the words chess, world and/or champion:

    “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)

    “It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.”
    —William James (1842–1910)

    “Let’s not quibble! I’m the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, “I’d rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.””
    —Tallulah Bankhead (1903–1968)