Women Chess Championship

Famous quotes containing the words women and/or chess:

    “Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.”
    —Erin Pizzey (b. 1939)

    “The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”
    —Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)