Chess World Champion

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

    “But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is like reaching for a salary check in its demand on the contemplative faculties.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

    “It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “What a terrible thing has happened to us all! To you there, to us here, to all everywhere. Peace who was becoming bright-eyed, now sits in the shadow of death; her handsome champion has been killed as he walked by her very side. Her gallant boy is dead. What a cruel, foul, and most unnatural murder! We mourn here with you, poor, sad American people.”
    —Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)