Comprehensive Chess Endings

Famous quotes containing the words chess and/or endings:

    “I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

    “Logic and hope fade somewhat by thirty-six, when endings seem more like clear warnings than useful experience.”
    —Jane O’Reilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 2 (1980)