Chess Championship Talk

Famous quotes containing the words chess and/or talk:

“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)

“I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)