World Chess

Famous quotes containing the words world and/or chess:

“And yet I think, if she were gone,
The world were better left alone.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“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)