Classical World Chess

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

    “Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “... the world always a step
    beyond the world, that can’t
    be looked for, only
    as the eye wanders,
    found.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “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)