Standard Chess

Famous quotes containing the words standard and/or chess:

“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“It’s a great huge game of chess that’s being played—all over the world—if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn’t mind being a Pawn, if only I might join—though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)