Women Chess Championship

Famous quotes containing the words women and/or chess:

    Popularity—The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    The trick, which requires the combined skills of a tightrope walker and a cordon bleu chef frying a plain egg, is to take your [preteen] daughter seriously without taking everything she says and does every minute seriously.
    —Stella Chess (20th century)