Chess
- Centers of chess activity in the early 19th century are coffee houses in the major European cities like Café de la Régence in Paris and Simpson's Divan in London. As the century progresses, chess organisation develops quickly with many chess clubs, chess books and chess journals appearing. Correspondence matches begin and the London Chess Club plays against the Edinburgh Chess Club in 1824.
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Famous quotes containing the word chess:
“Remember...that each child is a separate person, yours forever, but never fully yours. She can never be all you wished or wanted, or all you know she could be. But she will be a better human being if you can let her be herself.”
—Stella Chess (20th century)
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—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“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)