But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is like reaching for ...a salary check in its demand on the contemplative faculties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 a...s Seattle before his crime was discovered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-bo...ard, 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art--and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than a...rt in its social position.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When your house is on fire, you can't be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in chess, if your king is under attack you don...'t worry about losing a pawn on the queen's side.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-...chest. Here you can dig, not gold, but the value which gold merely represents; and there is no Signor Blitz about it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rimbaud and Verlaine, precious pair of poets, Genius in both (but what is genius?) playing... Chess on a marble table at an innLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »